The Highlands Current: Carving Out an Ideal World
May 20, 2022
“I’ll have 8 yards of art, please — one section to wear, the other to decorate my home.”
Farfetched? Perhaps, but not if you had made it during the 1960s in the Turin studio of Piero Gilardi. The Italian artist was experimenting with materials and sculptural forms and, with an interest in the dynamic between humans and the environment, he would have been happy to fill the order.