"Mobili Nella Valle Series" chair

Italian sculptor Mario Ceroli was a member of the Arte Povera anti-modern radical movement in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. He focused on experiments with humble materials (primarily wood) in his work, one of the central themes of Arte Povera. Inspired by the Giorgio de Chirico painting from 1927 from the painter’s Mobili nella Valle series, Ceroli’s grouping of furniture brought the painting into three-dimensional space. De Chirico’s work features an assemblage of attenuated furniture forms crowded together on a platform in a landscape with a folly in the background. The chair is a recreation of the central chair form from de Chirico’s painting, materialized in Russian pine.