AFA 22nd Anniversary

21st Anniversary 54 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com The formal living room features a pair of contemporary footed “Gae ” chairs (2014) by Italian designer Achille Salvagni in hand- engraved bronze and upholstered in deep blue cotton velvet. The “Baroquisme” coffee table (2017) is by Vincenco De Cotiis, who creates works that live in between art, sculpture and architecture, creating unexpected combinations of materials with silvered cast brass and Murano glass – here with swirls of green, chosen for the hue’s reference to the Emerald Isle. The puddles of glass appear as if they are still molten; and combined with the metal surface, gives the effect of a luminous, shimmering pool. De Cotiis describes the piece as an expression of “liquid dizziness.” The painting, Reticulation (2014), is by Mark Francis, a Northern Irish painter who is known for painting “alla prima,” a wet-on-wet approach where wet paint is applied to previous layers of still-wet paint to create photographic effects of glowing light. This optically intense work, with its net-like lines and glowing pinpoints, takes reference from graphic translations of astronomer’s scientific data obtained in charting the cosmos.