Costantino Nivola: bronze, fresco, concrete, marble, sandcast, terracotta

The Drawing Room is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of works by Costantino Nivola (1911-1988), a Sardinian-born sculptor who emigrated to New York in 1938 and soon became central within the legendary generation of artists that congregated on Long Island's East End in the mid-20th century.  

 

The show will spotlight carved concrete sculptures, sandcast reliefs and a polychrome fresco from the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the classic marble and bronze forms the artist created in the 1980s.  Nivola's approach to each medium is unified by his iconic distillation of the human form in timeless abstractions. 

 

From chiseled and cast cubist shapes that characterized the earliest works on view to the sensual silhouettes of his elegant late sculptures, Nivola produced an influential and enduring body of work that is represented in international museum and private collections.  Many monumental reliefs and sculptures that were commissioned in collaboration with leading Modernist architects are preserved on public buildings throughout the United States.