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Artworks
Edoardo Villa South African/Italian, 1915-2011
Untitled (Piero), 1993Steel53 x 35 x 35 cmEdition of 9 (#6/9)Signed, dated and numberedFurther images
Piero was made in the year that South Africa’s constitutional negotiations produced an interim Constitution and older public symbols of authority were being reconsidered. Villa’s work is not a direct...Piero was made in the year that South Africa’s constitutional negotiations produced an interim Constitution and older public symbols of authority were being reconsidered. Villa’s work is not a direct political allegory, but its modernist language was from that changing civic world. The personal title cuts against the idea of universal, impersonal abstraction – a numbered object acquires a name. It allows Villa’s late work to be read not as settled heritage, but as a modernist practice carried into a newly negotiated public culture.
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