Edoardo Villa South African/Italian, 1915-2011
Untitled (Stallone), 1992
Steel
206 x 68 x 51 cm
Edition of 2 (#1/2)
Signed, dated and numbered
Further images
Stallone shares Bridjat’s unusually small edition of two and the economics of large-scale fabrication. The Italian word stallone means “stallion”, although Villa’s precise intended reference has not been documented. The...
Stallone shares Bridjat’s unusually small edition of two and the economics of large-scale fabrication. The Italian word stallone means “stallion”, although Villa’s precise intended reference has not been documented. The title retains an Italian linguistic trace within a practice formed in South Africa. Created in 1992, the work sits between postwar European modernism and apartheid’s final crisis, and between the artist’s signature and the labour of a workshop. Its continued life depends on material systems – documentation, transport, installation and conservation – rather than on symbolic permanence alone.
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