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Venerdì 10 dicembre 2021 ore 15:00 CET
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Bertolami Fine Arts srl
Piazza Lovatelli, 1
00186 Roma
Italia
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LOT 137:
MIRKO BASALDELLA (Udine, 1910 - Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stati Uniti, 1969)
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Sold for: €3,800
Start price:
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2,000
Estimated price :
€3,000 - €4,000
Buyer's Premium: 26%
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MIRKO BASALDELLA (Udine, 1910 - Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stati Uniti, 1969)
Small Stele (Animated Stele), 1964
Bronze, 40 cm
This Small Stele (Animated Stele) is part of a series of 'totems' created by Mirko throughout his artistic career, inspired by different formal solutions. This work is an expression of Mirko's peculiar totemic figures: the modern merges with the primordial, constituting its supporting skeleton, but imaginatively becoming something else. His primitivism is not therefore uncritically acquired according to a fad but is taken on from an inner point of view, perceiving its magical value and its apotropaic quality. Alongside a society devoted to the mythologisation of the technological process, Mirko's knowledge of the forms of primitivism also deepened during his time as a teacher in the United States, as he visited museums of history and anthropology. From this time, he gained a deep impression of the contradictions between extreme modernity and the possibility of rediscovering a certain primitivism;
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