Wood; diameter each: 175 cm, depth each: 80 cm<\/p>\n
1980<\/p>\n
series of five pieces<\/p>\n
From 1949 to 1952, the Swiss artist Raffael Benazzi (*1933 – 2025) completed his apprenticeship as a sculptor in the Zurich studio of Arnold D’Altri, Alfred Huber and Willy Stadler. D\u2019Altri was the teacher with the most discernible influence on the 18 year old Benazzi, who aspired to become an independent artist.
\nBenazzi shows great talent when it comes to realising his ideas with different materials. It is astonishing how he responds to the challenges, which diverse materials such as wood, bronze or alabaster have to offer. Emphasising the material properties of his sculptures has always been important to him. He wants to direct the observer’s attention on the surface, thereby accentuating the sculpture\u2019s expansion into the room.
\nHis shapes can be labelled \u2018organic abstraction\u2019 and are formally and emotionally reminiscent of natural structures: buds, fruits or seed capsules. Under the influence of the urban American scenery, where he had lived and worked for many years, Benazzi combined his soft, organic and sensually rounded shapes with edged-cubist, architectural elements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Materials Wood; diameter each: 175 cm, depth each: 80 cm Dating 1980 About the artwork series of five pieces About the artist From 1949 to 1952, the Swiss artist Raffael Benazzi (*1933 – 2025) completed his apprenticeship as a sculptor in the Zurich studio of Arnold D’Altri, Alfred Huber and Willy Stadler. D\u2019Altri was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.thedoldergrand.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.thedoldergrand.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.thedoldergrand.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.thedoldergrand.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art.thedoldergrand.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/art.thedoldergrand.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/art.thedoldergrand.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/761\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art.thedoldergrand.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}