Four seasons
collezione Megalopoli, 1983
tavolo in cristallo con lastra in rame inciso
e quattro gambe in acciaio, fogli di bronzo.
il tavolo è alto cm 72, il piano di cristallo sagomato
è spesso 1,5 cm ritagliato su disegno
da una lastra di cm 155 x 105.

Biography
Alik Cavaliere was born in Rome in 1926. Studied with Marino Marini at the Brera Academy. After a youthful debut in a post-cubist primitivist manner, he started modeling figures of popular subjects in refractory earth, polychrome gesso and wood in a realist manner which was not without ironic-critical accents, which he developed, in a narrative sense, during the 60s, with the cycles Forbidden Games, Metamorphoses, and, above all, The Adventures of Gustavo B, in which he tells the story of a man, a helpless and deformed pygmy, as well as the urban environment in which he lives and from which he is estranged. Starting with the “landscape” of the Adventures–naturalistic casts, real or fictitious, of vegetable elements, no strangers to what happened to Pop Art in Italy–which he elaborated at first into a sort of sculpture-landscape, and afterwards, on an environmental scale, into hypertrophic stage-designs, of baroque taste, where the human figure is called upon to perform its own anonymous daily adventures. Alik Cavaliere died in Milan on January 5, 1998.