(Parma 1896–1968 Rome)
Cerchio con sbarra e valvole (Meridiana), 1966, iron, height 52 cm

Photo Certificate:
Galleria Fonte d’Abisso, Milan, archive no. 3349

Provenance:
Galleria Fonte d’Abisso, Milan

Exhibition:
Rome, Malborough Gallery, Otto pittori e sei sculturi, 1966;
Turin, Galleria Stein, Ettore Colla, November–December 1967,
travelling exhibition:
Naples, Galleria La Rampa, January 1968, exhib. cat. (curated by M. Fagiolo dell’Arco);
Rome, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna, Ettore Colla, Retrospective, 18 June – 30 August 1970,
travelling exhibition; Wuppertal, Von der Heydt Museum, 11 October – 15 November 1970, exhib. cat., no. 57, ill. (curated by Palma Bucarelli);
Galleria Fonte d’Abisso, Ettore Colla, 19 March – 23 May 2009, exhib. cat., Cinisello Balsamo, p. 67, no. 25, ill. (curated by Marco Meneguzzo)

Literature:
Giorgio De Marchis, Sandra Pinto, Colla, Bulzoni, Rome, 1972, no. 210, ill.

... Success does not change destiny, which finally reveals itself as a calling, the exhausting calling of an introverted, slow and difficult artist, whose assemblage work seems to be his own emblem: to go back, in solitude, to the fragment of something that was discarded from use, in order to rediscover it as an essential part of a different order of meaning, at once perfect and mysterious. […]

For a long time Colla searched for this order and this meaning by building his structures with a careful compositional work, discovering secret joints, junctures and connections in the wear and tear and in the signs of time that mark his finds.
(in G. De Marchis, S. Pinto, Colla, Rome 1972).