Costantino Nivola

Costantino Nivola, Figura Femminile (Madre) Marmo, 1987, at the Palazzo del Consiglio Regionale, Cagliari
A series of sculptures located in Piazza Satta in Nuoro (1967)
The Nivola Museum in Orani (Sardinia), view of the park

Costantino (also known as Antine, in Sardinia, or Tino, in the US)[1][2][3][4] Nivola (July 5, 1911 – May 6, 1988) was an Italian sculptor, architectural sculptor, muralist, designer, and teacher.

Born in Sardinia, Nivola had already started his career when he fled Fascism for Paris in 1938, going to the U.S. in 1939. His major sculptural work is abstract, large-scale architectural reliefs in concrete, made in his own sandcasting and cement carving processes. These were erected in and on American buildings between the late 1950s and early 1970s. Creatively busy and while remaining active in Italy, Nivola also taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Columbia University, UC Berkeley, and elsewhere.

Nivola Museum (ph. Armin Linke)

The Nivola Museum in Orani, Sardinia is dedicated to his life and sculpture, and hosts the largest collection of his smaller scale work.[5]

  1. ^ "Nivola biography". Museo Nivola. Retrieved October 26, 2017.
  2. ^ "Nivola. Ho bussato alle porte di questa città meravigliosa | ILISSO" (in Italian). Retrieved December 9, 2019.
  3. ^ Onnis, Omar; Mureddu, Manuelle (2019). Illustres. Vita, morte e miracoli di quaranta personalità sarde (in Italian). Sestu: Domus de Janas. ISBN 978-88-97084-90-7. OCLC 1124656644.
  4. ^ Altea, Giuliana (2005). Costantino Nivola (in Italian). Nuoro: Ilisso. ISBN 88-89188-13-8. OCLC 60436870.
  5. ^ "Museo Nivola". www.museonivola.it.