Diver Up 2020 - 2026

Victor Spinelli

GlassGlass Fibre
30 ⨯ 16 ⨯ 14 cm
ConditionExcellent
Price on request

Villa del Arte Galleries

• About the artwork
  The oeuvre of Victor Spinelli has grown from studies in architecture to photography, to painting, ceramics, graphic novels, film scripts, sculpture and now big installations. Much of his work has been profoundly shaped from his experiences of traveling through 85 countries visually documenting cultures, religions, landscapes and people, leading to countless artistic projects.
  There are very few artists that have taken one of their most famous photographs and turned it into a world renowned sculpture. The original photograph of Diver UP, taken by Victor
  Spinelli, in Ibiza (2005), evolved into a 12 inch sculpture in 2017 and now into a mammoth 8 meter interactive statue whose presence at Burning Man was a show stopper.
  The inspiration and symbolism behind "Diver UP" refers to the combination of an industrial helmet and the feminine form highlighting the contrast of man-made versus Mother Earth.
  The Goddess is freeing herself of the controlling force that has been imposed on her, a metaphor for society, history and mankind. Thus freeing the feminine goddess.
  Living between New York and the Mediterranean, basing himself in Ibiza, his documentation of the Ibizan nightlife scene has since been published in his successful first book ‘Manumission Reflections’.
  Spinelli has had varios commercial success among clients such as, HBO, NBC, 20th Century Fox, The Travel Channel, MusicJustMusic, Pacha, Manumission, Subliminal Records and Ibiza Rocks.
• About the artist

  Victor Spinelli (born 1966) is an American-Italian contemporary artist known for his multidisciplinary practice, which combines photography, painting, sculpture, and large-scale installations. His work operates at the intersection of art, documentation, and visual storytelling, often inspired by his extensive travels and observations of cultures around the world.

  Spinelli originally studied architecture at the University of Buffalo. This training formed an important foundation for his later artistic approach: a strong sense of structure, space, and composition. During his travels—now to more than eighty countries—his focus gradually shifted from architecture to visual documentation and artistic interpretation of the environments he visited.

  His oeuvre is characterized by a combination of documentary sharpness and artistic imagination. In his photography and installations, Spinelli explores themes of identity, place, history, and human experience. By combining different media, he creates works that are both visually powerful and conceptually layered.

  With his international perspective and broad artistic practice, Victor Spinelli has built a recognizable position within contemporary art, in which travel, culture and spatial thinking play a central role.

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