DolceVita666 by Kuzica
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Medium: Gold-plated stainless steel, Corten
Dimensions: 30.5 x 64 cm
Edition production year: 2025
Edition of 3
Price: $10000.00 USD
Status: available
La Dolce Vita – A Tribute to Federico Fellini I 2024 I gold-plated stainless steel, Corten I 64 x 30,5 x 21,5 cm This sculpture pays tribute to the outstanding Italian director and scriptwriter Federico Fellini. A surrealist flower nurtured by human illusion, it is a visual cue for Fellini’s masterwork, the 1960 critical pamphlet on the lifestyle of so-called noble high society, La dolce vita (Sweet Life). The sculpture’s contrasting forms, diverse color palette and surface, mirror reflections, both rigid and frivolous lines metaphorically express the heart of human existence threatened by decadence – self-indulgence and addictive infatuation.
Why collect this work?
A narrow, rust-brown pillar supports a swollen reflective form, turning the sculpture’s sharp contrast in mass and surface into an image of glamour precariously upheld.
- Kuzica’s profile identifies sculpture and design as central to his practice. Here, that dual background clarifies the controlled silhouette and the tension between an engineered object and a suggestive organic form.
- In the photograph, folded gold-toned lobes surround a pointed central peak, while small lateral projections resemble drooping petals or limbs. These bodily associations remain unresolved, making excess appear both seductive and cumbersome.
- The documented gold-plated stainless steel can produce reflections that fragment nearby forms, while Corten supplies a visually dense counterweight. Their juxtaposition separates gleaming display from the structure that bears it.
- The artist describes the sculpture as a tribute to Federico Fellini’s La dolce vita and its critique of elite self-indulgence. Encountered through that reference, its polished upper mass reads as spectacle dependent on darker support.
About the Artist
Kuzica
Kuzica is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: sculpture. Based in Praha 9 - Dolní Počernice, Slovakia.
Nationality: Slovak
In 2015, Kuzica applied the abstract concept to the construction of six sculptures, denying their material again, to Štěpnice Castle Park in Dolní...
