Dorfles Set of 2 Espresso Cups
$150.00
THIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ONLY & ESTIMATED FULFILMENT STARTS FROM 8TH SEPT 2023.ILLY ART COLLECTION – GILLO DORFLES
The latest edition of the illy Art Collection celebrates the great intellectual, painter and art critic Gillo Dorfles, one of the most eclectic figures in the world of Italian art and culture. For the illy Art Collection signed by Dorfles, the artist has taken inspiration from some of his works from the end of the 1930s, made with egg tempera: a technique favoured by the great masters of the fifteenth century.
illy has created a special cup, designed by the artist, to celebrate the exhibition Gillo Dorfles. Essere nel tempo at MACRO in Rome from the 26 November 2015.
Available for pre-ordering
About Gillo Dorfles
Gillo Dorfles is a philosopher, an artist and a tireless explorer of taste, fashion and techniques. He is an art critic, intellectual, sociologist of the arts, semiologist and scholar of aesthetics. He has been one of the keenest observers of the development of art and aesthetics since the 1940s. Since the 1930s Gillo Dorfles has pursued his own career as an artist alongside his academic career as a professor of aesthetics. He has written numerous essays on the latest developments in the arts and social behaviour. Gillo Dorfles was born in 1910 in the mittel-European city of Trieste. In 1928 he enrolled at University in Milan and graduated in Medicine in 1934, with a specialization in Psychiatry. However, he left medicine behind and turned to the study of aesthetics and art criticism, writing some of the most influential texts on contemporary art. From the 1960s onward he taught as a lecturer and then as a professor of Aesthetics at the Universities of Milan, Trieste and Cagliari.
SPECIFICATIONS
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.
Be the first to review “Dorfles Set of 2 Espresso Cups”