Yvan LOZZI Pestalozzi - Sculptor

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Yvan LOZZI Pestalozzi
Sculptor
Postfach 1
8122 Binz - Maur ZH
Switzerland

Phone:

+41 44 980 08 76

Fax:

+41 44 980 40 25

E-Mail:

y.pestalozzi@lozzi.ch


Born on 13 December 1937 in Glarus, Switzerland.

Served a cabinet-making apprenticeship.
Broadened my field of knowledge - mainly by teaching myself!
There was no schooling or vocational training that could have given me the skills I needed for my future occupation. There are still none today.
I have been working as a freelance artist since 1964.

 

My Work

I usually make my small filigree objets d'art by brazing together wire and sheet-metal whilst the figures are formed in a tin/lead alloy. In contrast to these, my colourful iron sculptures for "art on/inside buildings", some of which weigh several tonnes, include displays of water in movement, gigantic ball rollways, insect stabiles, wind sculptures and many others.

My Light-hearted Art

Each of us has a good side and a nasty side. I have made it my aim in life to neutralise this widespread nastiness by using humour as a positive force and administering my own brand of light-hearted, ironical playfulness.

I want the light that emanates from my work to dispel the prevailing gloom, not only to make this world more bearable for myself, but also to give pleasure to my appreciative fellow beings.

My Sphere of Activity

I have taken part in numerous single and group exhibitions in galleries and museums at home and abroad and have been awarded several first prizes in competitions. I fashion playground sculptures as multiples, design industrially manufacturable products for interiors and create iron sculptures commissioned by private persons and business enterprises.

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