VEtable fan 1954 - 1960

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"VEtable fan" is a 1954-1960 sculpture by Ezio Pirali (1921 - ?). This small-scale work, now housed in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, depicts a stylized table fan. Pirali's use of a silver, metallic finish on the fan and its base, along with the simple geometry of the piece, are characteristic of his work and suggestive of a futuristic, machine-like aesthetic. His work often explores the relationship between industrial design and art, as seen in this piece.

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minneapolisinstituteofart about 1 year ago

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To disperse air in a hot, stagnant room, a fan needs a set of elevated, whirling blades. In his elegant design for this table fan, Ezio Pirali shaped the blades like those of an airplane propeller and surrounded the fan with two intersecting rings, which suggest the path of planets around a sun, or perhaps the atom, whose electrons orbit its nucleus. While elegant, they would have done little to shield the blades from curious fingers.