Carpets that imitate nature, sometimes an extraordinary garden, sometimes the bed of a river with its pebbles, sculpted paintings that look like a piece of vegetable garden with its very red tomatoes, seats in the shape of tree trunks, clothes like pea pods, leaves and slices of watermelon or corn on the cob... All the whimsical and futuristic freedom of the 1960s lost the sweet creator of "habitable art", Piero Gilardi, born in Turin in August 1942 and died this Sunday March 5, at the age of 80.
This sculptor carried by the Italian avant-garde of the post-war period, inducted by the Swiss high priest of contemporary art, Harald Szeemann, in 1969, enjoyed resounding and international success - he exhibited at the prestigious Sonnabend Gallery in Paris in 1967!
- before sinking into oblivion from the art archives, after the 1990s. Some of his old pieces, fragile despite appearances and their plastic materials, have thus disappeared in…
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