Installation with five iron sculptures
Italy, 1996
Giuseppe Spagnulo (b. 1936) - Italian sculptor
One sculpture signed and titled in the iron ‘Spagnulo 96’
Dimensions: circa 10 x 13 x 13 cm
Good condition
Provenance: Private collection, Germany
One of Spagnulo’s typical public art works in the tradition of the Arte Povera. The current highest auction record for an iron sculpture of Spagnulo, a former assistant of Lucio Fontana, is more than €19,000
Estimate by Auctionata Expert: 8,000 Euro

Giuseppe Spagnulo (born 1936) looks at the sculpture as an act of ‘breaking up the material’. From his perspective, the form arises as a consequence of an intervention into its wholeness. Spagnulo ‘breaks’, divides or transforms the iron, breaking at the same time with the symbol of social ‘perfection’.

Condition:

The sculptures are in good condition, showing some corrosion marks due to age. The dimensions are circa 10 x 13 x 13 cm each.

Giuseppe Spagnulo (b. 1936)

From 1952 to 1958, Giuseppe Spagnulo studied at the Istituto d'Arte per la Ceramica in Faenza. In 1959, he was an assistant in the sculpture studios of Lucio Fontana and Arnaldo Pomodoro. In addition, he became acquainted with Piero Manzoni. As of 1968, he worked on the first iron sculptures. In 1980, Spagnulo was a DAAD fellow in Berlin. He exhibited at both the Venice Biennale and the documenta in Kassel. Some of his works in public spaces are located in the Kunstmuseum Bochum, in the Haus Weitmar and the Deutsche Bergbau-Museum in Bochum. (cko)

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