PARIS.- PIASA’s auction Protest: Art + Design features works that encapsulate the art of Protest, both aesthetically and politically.
From Anti-Design to Radicalism, from Lettrisme to Punk, from Fluxus to the Nouveaux Réalistes, from La Nouvelle Gauche to Anarchism… the 1960s and 1970s were a period of profound political and social change, prompted by a new libertarian élan and a burning desire for a different worldview. The period saw the birth of the Feminist, Ecology and Anti-Militarist movements – and of alternative movements in general.
The auction will offer works by Hans Haacke, Joseph Beuys, Jacques Villeglé, Ben, Richard Artschwager, Joseph Coplans, Jurgen Schadeberg ou encore pour l’anti-design Alessandro Mendini et Lapo Binazzi.
Note as well Morris’ unpublished page of comics “Lucky Luke censure” created for POUR Magazine, valued 80 000/120 000 €.
Vetri Italiani, 1932-1992
A PRIVATE COLLECTION
AUCTION: TUESDAY 28 OCTOBER 2014 at 6.30PM
On Tuesday 28 October 2014, PIASA will offer for auction an exceptional private collection of Italian glass formed over a 30-year period. The 190 works reflect decades of amazing creativity and the unique skill of Murano.
Fulvio Bianconi was a highly creative and artistically influential figure who began to work with Venini in 1940. He designed the famous pezzati, a spichi, scozzesi vases, using glass of dazzling colour. A classic example is the vase that headlines the PIASA sale. It is the most sought-after design in his entire oeuvre, and just three such vases are known to have been made. One is in an American collection; a second was formerly in the Museo Venini (but stolen and never recovered); and the third is to be offered by PIASA. The vase’s different layers of colour reveal Bianconi’s incredible dexterity, as colour becomes form, hugging vase’s outline – a technique Bianconi made his hallmark and which established his international reputation (est. €120,000-180,000).
One of Fulvio Bianconi’s signature series are his Comedia dell’Arte figurines, reinterpreting the lattimo technique invented in the 15th century to imitate porcelain and give glass a milky, opaque appearance. The full series of characters are united here for the first time (est. €30,000-40,000).
In the 1950s Flavio Poli devoted his efforts to designing vases using the sommerso (immersed) technique involving superimposed layers of glass produced by passing the item successively in different basins of glass in fusion, to facilitate subtle colour combinations.
These vases enjoyed immediate success, and Poli received a string of awards – including the 1954 Compasso d’Oro. He is considered one of the finest exponents of the sommerso technique, and his Siderale vase perfectly embodies the spirit of Murano,with the perfection of traditional technique allied to modernistic form and design (est. €15,000-20,000).
Other exceptional works in the sale include a rare selection of pieces from the Glassmakers’ Co-Operative, Fucina degli Angeli. The Max Ernst’s glass mask with inclusions (1968) and Jean Cocteau’s Trinità vase (est. €6,000-8,000), while another important lot is Flavio Poli’s iconic Siderale vase.
