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Monday, October 26, 1998
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Sculptor Sergio Dolfi is lending his work to UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art for an exhibition beginning in October, but his ties to UGA will grow even stronger in coming years.
Dolfi, a native of Italy and a retired executive from Coca-Cola, has arranged in his will to donate his original sculpture to UGA, along with a significant bequest to be used for its care.
“We are truly delighted to be receiving this magnificent gift from Mr. Dolfi,” says Carmon Colangelo, director of the art school. “We hope later to set up a study collection of his work when we move into our planned new building.”
As an introduction to Dolfi’s work, the school is displaying an exhibition of his work in ivory and exotic woods opening Oct. 29 in the main gallery of the visual arts building. The works will remain on view until Nov. 13.
“I had been looking for quite a while for a place to leave my original carvings, and I had thought of museums and so forth, but I realized that sometimes museums have to lock things in their basements,” says Dolfi. “It was then I thought about the Lamar Dodd School of Art, because I had been on the board of directors of the Cortona Program. I went to Athens and met Carmon Colangelo, and realized that they have a very important group of students there. The thought then occurred to me that I could give my work to a place where it would be available not only to the public but to students as well.”
Dolfi’s career has successfully combined business and art. Born in Florence, Italy, in 1921, he earned a doctorate in economics at the University of Florence and then moved in 1946 to New York City where he joined the Coca-Cola Company. He continued with Coke through assignments in Italy, London and finally in Atlanta in 1973, when he was promoted to vice president. He retired from Coca-Cola in 1987.
At the same time, Dolfi had been sculpting, working extensively in tulipwood, rosewood, boxwood, walnut, jacaranda and ebony. He was able to collect wood during his business travels. Beginning in 1984, he started using his carvings as models for bronze castings. He has also used stone and polyethelene as sculpture media.
Solo exhibitions of his work have been held in New York, Atlanta, Florence and Tokyo. Dolfi is now working on a commission for a Saudi Arabian company, using as his original medium polyethelene, from which a bronze will be cast.
His bequest to the University of Georgia includes 28 pieces in such fine woods as mahogany, eucalyptus, teak and burl maple.
--Phil Williams
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Oct. 30
Bill Young and Dancers have appeared in more than a dozen international tours since the company’s establishment in 1986. They have performed in Austria, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Brazil, Peru and Venezuela, and in the current season they are appearing in southern Europe, Latin America and Asia in addition to the United States.
Bill Young, founder and choreographer for the company, is originally from Durham, N.C. He has created new works on commission for the Estonian National Opera Ballet, the Pennsylvania Dance Theater, the Zenon Dance Company of Minneapolis, Montreal’s Compagnie de Danse l’Astragale, the Wildspace Dance Company (Milwaukee) and the Bratislava Adata Dance Group. He has taught at universities throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America, and will be teaching and choreographing for UGA’s dance department during an educational residency in conjunction with his company’s performance.
One dancer in the company, Anthony Phillips (top left in photo) was born and raised in Georgia and is a graduate of the UGA dance department. He will be featured in two works on the program, 3m and 3.Veiling.
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Oct. 29
Terry Tempest Williams is CHA visiting artist this week. She is the author of Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland (1984), Coyote’s Canyon (1989), Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (1991), An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field (1994) and Desert Quartet: An Erotic Landscape. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Fellowship in creative nonfiction.
She describes herself as “a woman whose ideas have been shaped by the Colorado Plateau and the Great Basin. . . . These ideas are then filtered through the prism of my culture, and my culture is Mormon. Those tenets of family and community that I see at the heart of that culture are then articulated through story.” |
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Oct. 28.
Kurt Vonnegut, author of Cat’s Cradle, Hocus Pocus and Slaughterhouse Five. |
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