Edoardo Villa South African/Italian, 1915-2011
Untitled (Ivor), 1993
Steel
35 x 61 x 45 cm
Edition of 9 (#4/9)
Signed, dated and numbered
Further images
Ivor emerged at a moment when South African modernism itself required reassessment. Villa had long sought a sculptural language responsive to Africa while drawing on European modernism. By 1993, that...
Ivor emerged at a moment when South African modernism itself required reassessment. Villa had long sought a sculptural language responsive to Africa while drawing on European modernism. By 1993, that ambition could no longer be separated from questions of who had access to institutions, commissions and historical recognition under apartheid. The work is valuable precisely because it carries both achievement and contradiction. Collecting it means preserving an object while participating in the continuing re-reading of the history that made it visible.
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