Bintou Abstract Bronze Sculpture by Andrea Picini, Italy, 1969

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This is an intense bronze abstract sculpture and it was created by the Italian artist Andrea Picini. The artwork is … Read more This is an intense bronze abstract sculpture and it was created by the Italian artist Andrea Picini. The artwork is hand made by the technic of the lost wax bronze and it has a black wooden basement. The title is "Bintou" that represents an African name of people. In effect he spent many time in Africa. This continent and his foreign travels, have many influenced his work. Andrea Picini was born in Rome on march 14, 1935. Trained in paris, he first won the prestigious Prix Nationale de la Sculture in 1960, in France. He is a painter, a sculptor, a ceramist and jewellery designer. Picini is a wandering artist. He has lived for long period of time abroad in Africa, India, Syria, Yugoslavia and his foreign travels have greatly influenced his work. His art can most probably be seen as the attempt to give substance to both space and time, embodying his desire to reveal the essence of life, which remains difficult to capture and elusive through language. See less