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Article: Costantino Nivola: public and private: a selection of Nivola's sculptures, soon to leave the U.S. for a permanent home in a museum devoted to the artist in Sardinia, provided a rare overview of his work at the Parrish Museum.(Report From Southampton)
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- Art in America
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- May 1, 2004
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Costantino Nivola's father was a stonecutter, and Tino learned the trade while still a youth in the town of Orani in Sardinia, where he was born in 1911. Later he went to art school in Milan and studied painting. He also developed an interest in architecture. Although Tino never designed buildings, he worked in close collaboration with such architects as Josep Lluis Sert and Eero Saarinen, and maintained a friendship with Le Corbusier. As much as any artist I have known, Tino was sensitive to the symbiosis between architecture and sculpture.
In 1939, fearing for the safety of his Jewish wife, Ruth Guggenheim, in Mussolini's Italy, Nivola brought her to America. He ...