Andrea Salvetti - Moss New York Tuesday, October 16, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist

  • Exhibited

    Moss, Design Miami, December 5 -9, 2007

  • Literature

    Andrea Salvetti: terra terra, exh. cat. Dilmos Gallery, Milan, 2007, pp. 60-61, 113

  • Catalogue Essay

    The life-sized centerpiece of his ‘Terra Terra’ collection, ‘L’Albero’ (The Tree), is a masterwork of Milanese artist, Andrea Salvetti, comprised of more than 10,000 cast aluminum leaves. Each leaf welded by Salvetti, the tree gives shade on a terrace, poolside, or brings ‘nature’ indoors. Strongly influenced by the early handmade metal works of Ron Arad and by the ‘artisan’ approach adapted by conceptual artists/designers such as Gaetano Pesce, Salvetti applied his own lyrical approach to design to a particularly difficult technique of lost wax casting in aluminum. This soon became his hallmark and marked the beginning of a long collaboration with the great Milanese design gallery, Dilmos, for whom Salvetti created his ‘Sottobosco’, ‘Ortofruta’, and ‘Terra Terra’ collections, all shown at Moss.

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Monumental ‘L’Albero’ tree from the ‘Terra Terra’ series

2006
Polyurethane painted aluminum.
118 in (299.7 cm) high, 177 in (449.6 cm) diameter
Produced by Dilmos, Italy. Fourth artist’s proof from the edition of 9 plus 4 artist’s proofs. Base impressed with ‘ANDREA SALVETTI “L’ALBERO” P/A 04’.Produced by Dilmos, Italy. Fourth artist’s proof from the edition of 9 plus 4 artist’s proofs. Base impressed with ‘ANDREA SALVETTI “L’ALBERO” P/A 04’.

Estimate
$35,000 - 45,000 

Moss

16 October 2012
New York