Purchase of the Municipality
From “0” to infinity
161th Element
Created 2012
Installation
Material oxidized iron
Size 67 x 12 x 226 cm
Place:
Ronde Via Locarno - Via Mezzana
Losone - Switzerland
Target client / artist:
The Modulor is Paolo Grassi's tribute to the great architect. Le Corbusier, pseudonym of Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, Swiss architect, urban planner, painter and designer naturalized French.
A first edition was made in bronze in scale 1:5, all sold out.
Paolo Grassi - conceptual artist - has realized an edition in scale 1:1 (height 226 cm), in oxidized iron that is permanently placed in a traffic circle in Losone (Switzerland) and a version in multilayer plexiglass.
These are the numbers that were required to accomplish this work from 4'802 to 4'811
Please note:
all commissioned works are part of the From "0" to infinity project.
The artist Paolo Grassi does not grant any exceptions.