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Artworks
Edoardo Villa South African/Italian, 1915-2011
Untitled (Stallone), 1992Steel206 x 68 x 51 cmEdition of 2 (#1/2)Signed, dated and numberedFurther 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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