Lot 52: - Elisa Sighicelli , b. 1967 Untitled (Mollino, Agitato) c-print mounted on lightbox

signed, titled, dated 2003 and numbered 2/3 on the reverse c-print mounted on lightbox

122 by 122 by 6.5cm.; 48 by 48 by 2 5/8 in.

Siena, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Elisa Sighicelli, Sottovoce, 2005, p. 11, illustrated in colour

Exhibition Catalogue, Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Elisa Sighicelli, 2007, p. 61, illustrated in colour

Gagosian Gallery, London
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2006

The subject of the present work Untitled ( Mollino, Agitato) is the impressive chandelier designed by Carlo Mollino for the Regio Theatre in Turin. It is composed of one thousand and nine hundred Perspex tubes, arranged around one thousand seven hundred and sixty two aluminium tubes, each terminating in a forty watt lamp. The stunning construction is here metamorphosed by the artist into an indefinite form, an intermittent stream of light rendered with increased intensity via the lightbox medium.