The Wounded One - Elmira, NY
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N 42° 05.800 W 076° 48.840
18T E 349993 N 4662101
"Francesco Somaini (6 August 1926 in Lomazzo – 19 November 2005 in Como) was an Italian sculptor" who created an abstract sculpture on the Elmira College Campus named "The Wounded One".
Waymark Code: WMQ8RG
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 01/11/2016
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"After a period of reflection upon the experiences of the international contemporary sculpture, he became interested in abstractionism and, in the mid-1950s, achieved an autonomy of language with sculptures realized in “ferric conglomerate” (Canto Aperto, Forza del nascere), art work that marked his entrance in the Concrete Art Movement (MAC) and preluded the great informal period."
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"Italian artist Francesco Somaini’s bronze sculpture Ferito sits centrally on the Elmira College campus between the path to the Park Place crosswalk and McGraw Hall. "