JAMES LICINI

Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist by the present owner, since then private collection Switzerland.

James Licini is a gifted and renowned Swiss sculptor in iron, known for his extremely simple, rectilinear and yet originally configured, architectonic sculptures.
James Licini was born in 1937, son of a blacksmith in Zurich, and following in the same profession, he completed his training in metal work in 1955, to work as a steel fixing contractor and fitter until 1959. Later he occasionally worked as assistant to the Swiss sculptor Kurt Laurenz Metzler and Hans Aeschbacher, which steered him and his professional skill as a craftsman, towards artistic expression. The precision of his work and the excellent knowledge of materials are apparent in his abstract iron sculptures, the materials for which he always obtains from industrial sources.

James Licini created his first iron sculpture in 1968 and received grants from the town and the Canton of Zurich, as well as a federal art grant in 1974. Since then James Licini has taken part in over 100 exhibitions. From the 1970s he has ranked amongst the most important Swiss sculptors in iron. His delicate, architectonic and at the same time expansive works can be found in public spaces, as well as in private collections.