Celotto - Nino Gobbis - Panel - Wood, Faesite

Sculpted by Gobbis, a prominent artist on the Venetian art scene of the 20th century who saw his works exhibited at the Venice Biennale in the 1950s, this panel represents an extraordinary fusion of figurative art and high interior design. Originally created for a famous furniture maker from Montebelluna, Treviso, these elements fit into the 1950s-60s vintage design trend. The piece is not merely a furnishing item but a fragment of design history with all the prerequisites to gain increasing value over time. Panel by Nino Gobbis, relief-sculpted on faesite. This 70 x 67 panel was crafted with extreme mastery of the gouge technique to achieve the raised reliefs. The composition belongs to the informal decoration research climate of the 50s/60s, a sort of archaic writing in which forms that recall masks, eyes, figures, architectures appear, almost pictograms, without ever becoming an explicit narrative. The contrast between the warm, earthy background and the black, highly material and irregular sign. The effect recalls certain 1950s-60s explorations focusing on primitivism, graffiti, matter, and sign, more than pure geometric abstraction. The very shape of the support, with beveled edges, reinforces the panel/art object character, typical of a season in which the boundaries between painting, ceramics, decoration, and design were highly permeable. Nino Gobbis used faesite or Masonite as a matrix. Being an industrial material without natural veins, it allows for precise lines, uniform blocks of color, and a surface that is decidedly harder and more resistant. The object testifies to an era when Arreda di Celotto’s furniture represented the era through these inserts. The staged photo was created with the help of AI. Gobbis collaborated with Arreda di Celotto, which in the 1950s produced furnishings designed by famous Italian architects and designers such as Piero Celotto, commissioning decorative panels from artists like Nino Gobbis to furnish bourgeois homes, offices, hotels, or cruise ships. This type of art merges artisanal craftsmanship with design production, integrating sculpture perfectly into interior architecture of the era. The panel has not undergone any treatment and retains all its charm. Nino Gobbis, Italian painter and etcher active in the mid-20th century, a figure deeply linked to the world of author interior design and Treviso’s modern design of the 1950s and 60s. These panels are characterized by a typically graphic aesthetic, with motifs that reflect European avant-garde movements from the first half of the century (with geometric and abstract references adapted to the geometric and organic taste of the 1950s). Provenance declaration: I declare that this panel comes from the private collection of the Celotto family of Montebelluna, which has kept it in its possession since the time of its creation. The work later became part of my private collection and is offered for sale with this provenance declaration, given in good faith. For shipping, the item is protected with either a double state of plywood or corrugated cardboard with a 5 cm thickness to prevent transport damage; unfortunately, this has an impact on shipping costs.