A curation by Flavio Scaloni, Gallery Manager at Galerie Lo Scalo - The bottle is a timeless vessel of inspiration, representing containment, domestic stillness, and the fragile interplay between light and transparency. Symbolically, it suggests the human condition—vessels waiting to be filled—carrying psychological connotations of isolation or hidden depth. Giorgio Morandi remains the definitive master of this motif, using works like "Natura Morta" to explore the rhythmic architectural space between humble objects. Since 1950, artists have deconstructed the bottle’s form across media. Sculptor Tony Cragg famously repurposed plastic containers in "New Stones - Newton's Tones" (1978) to comment on consumerism and materiality. Patrick Caulfield brought a graphic, Pop-inspired clarity to the subject in paintings like "Still Life with Bottle" (1968). In photography, the world-famous Wolfgang Tillmans captures the ethereal quality of glass in his contemporary still lifes, such as "Still Life, New York" (2001), where the bottle becomes a medium for light itself.
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