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Giacomo Manzu
Grafica Autobiografica
Edited By Marcella Cossu
December 2008
Mondadori Electa, Milan, Italy
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9788837062477
102 Pages, Illustrated, 10 1/4x 8 1/4 "
$44.50 Paper Original
The exhibition presents a selection of one hundred drawings and engravings by the artist from 1937 to 1980, most of which have very rarely bee exhibited to the public. The Ardea collection consists of over eighty works including sculptures, sketches and medals, almost all in bronze, produced by Manzù between 1927 and 1984, and by some 330 works including drawings, engravings and sketches of theatrical costumes made between 1940 and 1980. The exhibition presents a selection of one hundred drawings and engravings by the artist from 1937 to 1980, most of which have very rarely bee exhibited to the public. The chronological division will enable visitors to understand the artist's work, emphasizing its thematic cycles such as the series of sketches devoted to Pope John XXIII, the Partisans, his wife Inge and Gli Amanti.
