Edoardo Villa ,2011
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Notes : In 1980, Edoardo Villa had a major retrospective exhibition of almost 300 works at the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU, now the University of Johannesburg). This provided Villa a consolidated moment to revisit formal possibilities and methods he had previously dealt with. For Villa, the early 1980s did not have a defining sculptural style or thematic, but rather this period served to exemplify the creative range Villa possessed. Encouraged by varying commissions from all over the country, Villa took the opportunity to experiment with a number of different forms and processes. Between 1981-1982, Villa created a number of modelled maquettes for his large bronze commission for the Durban Art Gallery, a sculpture that, although horizontal, shares similarities to the work on auction. The amalgamation of organic and geometric planes and curves suggest an anthropomorphic figure. The repetition of segmented forms is in part a product of his process. Villa would cast multiples of certain shapes in bronze and then weld them together, enlivening the spontaneity of creating abstract compositions in bronze.
Joshua Stanley
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