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Alik Cavaliere indestructable reality

by Gillo Dorfles

Alik Cavaliere uses as his studio a section of a vast, In what we may call his floral and vegetal phase,
wooden shed-like structure, on the outskirts of Milan, Cavaliere has transformed the great dusty rooms, full of
which is reminiscent partly of an old hunting lodge and bric-a-brac, worn furniture and trestles into a mysterious
partly also of the conservatory of an ancestral patrician nursery of strange growths which appear extra-
residence which has seen better days. ordinarily fragile and ready to break up at the first touch,
On entering, the visitor feels that the resemblance to although in fact they are cast from bronze, rigid yet still
a conservatory is heightened—although this is a bearing the stamp of their organic origin, like certain
strange conservatory in which the flowers, leaves and petrified forests of tropical America.
Alik Cavaliere
in his studio in Milan shrubs are of bronze and there is no humidity. It would, however, be quite wrong to assume that