111. 111AR Georgios Zongolopoulos (Greek, 1903-2004) Cycladique, 1990 signé en grec et monogrammé 'Z' (sur la base) acier inoxydable 135 x 160 x 52cm (53 1/8 x 63 x 20 1/2in). Réalisé en 1990. signed in Greek and monogrammed (on the base) stainless steal Expositions Venice, XLV Esposizione Biennale Internationale d'Arte, Greek Pavilion, Giorgos Zongolopoulos, June 13 - October 10, 1993. Thessaloniki, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Zongolopoulos, Greece - XLV Venice Biennale 1993 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue). Littérature Zongolopoulos, Grecia - XLV Biennale di Venezia 1993, Ministry of Culture - Direction of Fine Arts, Athens 1993 (illustrated). D. Pavlopoulos, Zongolopoulos, K. Adam editions, Athens 2007, p. 118 (illustrated). Cycladic is a work of imaginative power and intellectual verve that explores the expressive potential of volume and the rhythmical relations between solids and voids. The cycle, a geometric shape Zongolopoulos was particularly fond of (compare Olympic rings, 1991, Bonhams Greek Sale, April 24, 2013, lot 89) is charged with symbolic import, alluding to the globe itself. In 1968, four years after the artist's first showing at the Venice Biennale, prominent French art critic and founder of the Salon de la Jeune Sculpture Denys Chevalier wrote of Zongolopoulos: "With the purity and stripping down of his original idea, with the economy of expression and geometric rigor of his statements, he belongs to the first rank of contemporary artists who set out to create sculptures based not on fleeting trends but rather on something permanent, belonging to both the past and the future."1 1 Text included in the catalogue of the Zongolopoulos showing in the 1993 Venice Biennale.