Costantino Nivola: marble travertine bronze concrete terracotta

On view August 2 through September 3, 2012, The Drawing Room in East Hampton is pleased to present the work of Costantino Nivola (1911-1988), highlighting the late sculpture in marble, travertine, bronze, concrete and terracotta. This overview of the distinctive forms Nivola created marks the centennial of the artist’s birth in Sardinia and follows the April 2012 exhibition and catalogue "Costantino Nivola: 100 Years of Creativity" organized by the Italian Embassy in Washington, DC.

Nivola’s early training as a mason in Sardinia compelled him to devote his five-decade career to the mastery of carving, casting and innovative bas-relief techniques in ancient materials familiar to him since childhood. True to his place of origin, Nivola’s creativity and vision for sculpture opened collaborative opportunities for him with architects in the postwar years in America and Europe. He played a vital role in humanizing international style architecture and gave voice to the archaic in the modern movement. His legacy spans groundbreaking urban and campus projects with pioneering architects of the 20th century and a major oeuvre of individual sculptural forms of evocative, primal beauty, on every scale.

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