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Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
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by Sandro Bocola
Sandro Bocola
Sandro Bocola was born in Trieste, Italy in 1931 and grew up in Italy, Libya and Switzerland. After studying for one and a half years at the School for Arts and Crafts in Basel, Bocola started a career as an artist. In 1955 he moved to Barcelona, where he temporarily gave up painting to work as a...
and three partners: Heinz Bütler, Rolf Fehlbaum and Erwin Meierhofer.
Xartcollection’s concept was to industrially produce three dimensional “Multiples” in limited and signed editions. The company’s philosophy was to make contemporary Art
Contemporary art
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...
available to a large public and its “Multiples” where sold worldwide in art galleries, design- and furniture stores namely at “Wohnbedarf”http://www.wohnbedarf.ch/ in Switzerland.
Internationally renowned artists such as Max Bill
Max Bill
Max Bill was a Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer.Bill was born in Winterthur...
, Getulio Alviani
Getulio Alviani
Getulio Alviani is an Italian painter born in Udine. He is considered to be an important International Optical - Kinetic artist.-Life and work:Since childhood Alviani showed talent for design and geometric drawing...
, Richard Hamilton (artist)
Richard Hamilton (artist)
Richard William Hamilton, CH was a British painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, is considered by critics and historians to be one of the...
, Allen Jones (sculptor)
Allen Jones (sculptor)
Allen Jones RA is a British pop artist, best known for his sculptures. He lives and works in London.Jones was born in Southampton and from 1955 to 1961 studied at the Hornsey College of Art...
, Joe Tilson, Peter Phillips (artist)
Peter Phillips (artist)
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and others participated in this project. Most of xartcollection's "Multiples" were produced by the firm of Reif, Relo-Kunststoffe in Lörrach
Lörrach
Lörrach is a city in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese, close to the French and the Swiss border. It is the capital of the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. The biggest industry is the chocolate factory Milka...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
In 1971 xartcollection also created "Xart Walls"http://www.sandrobocola.com/eng/html/bio_layer.htm which industrially produced wallpapers designed by known artists such as Jean Tinguely
Jean Tinguely
Jean Tinguely was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics...
, Niki de Saint Phalle
Niki de Saint Phalle
Niki de Saint Phalle, born Catherine-Marie-Agnès-Brandon Fal de Saint Phalle was a French sculptor, painter, and film maker.-The early years:...
. The "Xart Walls" where manufactured by the firm "Marburg Wallcoverings" in Kirchhain
Kirchhain
Kirchhain is a town in Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse, Germany.-Geography:Kirchhain is located in the heart of the state of Hesse in Marburg-Biedenkopf County...
, Germany.
Despite its international reputation the company went bankrupt and was dissolved in 1973.
Exhibitions
- 1969 Xartcollection Multiples, Beylerian Gallery, New York City
- 1969 Xartcollection Multiples, Bruno Bischofberger Gallery, Zürich
- 1970 "Multiple Art" Marlborough Gallery, New York Cityhttp://www.marlboroughgallery.com/
- 1970 "New Multiple Art" at the White Chapel Art Gallery, Londonhttp://www.whitechapel.org/
- 1970 "xartcollection" stand at the Art Basel, Switzerlandhttp://www.artbasel.com/
- 1971 "Multiples - the first decade" Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphiahttp://www.philamuseum.org/
- 1974 "Multiples" Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
- 1992 "Three or More" - Multiplied Art from Duchamp to the present - Wacoal Art Center of Spiral Garden, Tokyo
Reference Sources
- Google book search results on xartcollection:http://books.google.com/books?q=xartcollection&btnG=Search+Books
- Richard Hamilton," Guggenheim" Multiple for xartcollection on the British Council website:http://collection.britishcouncil.org/html/work/work.aspx?a=1&id=46166§ion=/artist/
- "Xart Walls" (1972), xartcollection wallpapers produced by Marburg Wallcoveringshttp://www.marburg.com/en/mt/unternehmen/historie.html