Irene Cattaneo
NUVOletto, 2024
Iron, Murano Glass
160x200 cm
Copyright The Artist
Inspired by the famous silver bedhead made by the artist Alexander Calder for the American art collector Peggy Guggenheim Cat- taneo’s homage to her favourite foreigner in Venice uses curves...
Inspired by the famous silver bedhead made by the artist Alexander Calder for the American art collector Peggy Guggenheim Cat- taneo’s homage to her favourite foreigner in Venice uses curves of hand-welded iron to turn Calder’s concept into a cloudy sky with solid Murano glass inserts. The work is titled Nuvoletto which means “little cloud” in Italian, while a capital L emphasises how this word already holds within it letto, the Italian word for bed.