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1951 · Iron
7' 11 5/8" x 56" x 39" (242.8 x 142.2 x 99 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Ettore Colla
1896
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1962–1963
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The Art of Assemblage
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1961
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Ettore Colla assembled large-scale abstract sculptures from scrap metal and industrial waste, pioneering a rigorously geometric approach to found-object construction in post-war Europe. Working from the 1950s onward, his welded steel compositions balanced industrial rawness with careful formal restraint, creating monumental works that occupied the space between pure abstraction and spatial presence. His practice established a model for material-based abstraction that influenced subsequent generations of European sculptors working with industrial debris.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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