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Gio

Born in 1960
Emotional Love 160 Metal, œuvre de Gio
Lot 16 — Gio, Emotional Love 160 Metal

LOT 16

Emotional Love 160 Metal

Changing colors One-of-a-kind artwork

Dimensions: H 63 inches / W 24 inches / D 10 inches

ESTIMATE18 000 / 22 000 €
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GIO (Born in 1960)

Emotional Love 160 Metal

Changing colors

One-of-a-kind artwork

Dimensions: H 63 inches / W 24 inches / D 10 inches

GIO is a French sculptor, born in 1960, who lives and works in France. His Pop language favors immediately recognizable forms, glossy finishes, and shifting surfaces. The heart, a universal motif, becomes a field of experimentation in which metal, color, and light transform the object according to the viewer’s angle and movement.

The universally recognizable heart becomes a field of contemporary experimentation. Metal gives the work clarity, strength, and monumental presence, while the chromatic treatment turns its surface into something alive. GIO creates a productive contrast between the permanence of structure and the instability of perception.

Each work invites participation, as it only reveals itself fully through movement. This interactive dimension creates a direct and memorable relationship, particularly powerful in a living or reception space. At once symbol, sculpture, and optical experience, GIO’s work combines accessible emotion, material innovation, and spectacular elegance.