ILLY Art Collection SUSTAINART 2014 - 4 Cappucinno Cups + Saucers Ultra Rare for Sale

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ILLY Art Collection SUSTAINART 2014 - 4 Cappucinno Cups + Saucers Ultra Rare:
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illy Art CollectionSustain Art 2014
ILLY Art Collection - SUSTAIN ART / Feeding Creativity! - MILAN EXPO 2015 - 4 Cappuccino Cups Gift Set Box
Brand New in the Box!Set of 4 Cappucinno cups and 4 saucers
Original gift box
Limited Edition
New in luxe BoxIlly\'s Sustain Art project combines their passion and unwavering commitment to sustainability, art and creativity in collaboration with artists from coffee-producing countries. These four design cups and saucers embody the theme of Expo Milano 2015 \"Feeding the planet, energy for life\".
The four artists were selected by the curators of illy sustainArt, a project started by illy in 2007 to expand its approach to sustainable growth to the international art community and offer creative talents from emerging countries opportunities to be seen. At the heart of the project is the www.illysustainArt.org website, which acts as a showcase for the world of contemporary art, a point of reference and a place where artists and curators can meet, exchange cultural ideas and have the opportunity to display and promote their work.ESTEBAN PIEDRA LEON (Costa Rica)Open space for thoughts, like a psychological landscape.\"The artistic research for this cup was based on the concept of an ideas workshop, and balancing a series of materials, methods and ideas rather than the production of individual components. This is a starting point for experiencing space within the home and social behaviour, trying to generate dialogue about and references to new places, and exploring the relationship between topography, archaeology and architecture.\"Esteban Piedra Leon is an artist, professor and curator. Born in Costa Rica in 1978, he has a degree in painting from the Universidad de Costa Rica, where he has been a professor in the painting department since 2003. He has had five solo shows and taken part in more than twenty group exhibitions in various countries around the world.NAUFUS RAMIREZ-FIGUEROA (Guatemala)From the \"zero\" degree of the volcano a potential force for movement and prosperity is generated.\"The cup is a kind of allegory of the rich lands in Guatemala, the ash and stone that pour out of the countries many volcanoes. These volcanoes fertilise and enrich the soil where the coffee plants grow, giving the coffee its distinctive flavor.\"Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa was born in Guatemala City in 1978, and now divides his time between Vancouver and Guatemala City. He has exhibited and performed in numerous art galleries and for public organisations. He has a degree in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Emily Carr University in Vancouver.ELIAS SIME (Ethiopia)To feed someone means taking care of them physically and emotionally. Energy is the power needed to produce something.\"The work on the coffee cup is a collage of goats and motherboards. The goats are realistically painted using acrylics and watercolours. The saucer is a collage of motherboards with a large coffee bean in the middle which is also painted in acrylics and watercolours.\"Elias Sime was born in Cherkos (Ethiopia) in 1968 and graduated from Addis Ababa University\'s School of Fine Art and Design with a degree in graphic design. Sime finds inspiration for his works in the streets of the Ethiopian capital and has strong bonds with the communities he documents, and especially with the neighbourhood children who bring him objects gathered from the street. His work focuses mainly on collages, needlework and three-dimensional sculpture. Sime lives and works in Addis Ababa.ADAN VALLECILLO (Honduras)The evolution of life compared with the ripening of coffee berries.\"I\'ve applied my passion for Pantone to the cup starting with the stages of color that coffee berries go through as they ripen. This is combined with the idea of a graphic concept of energy for life expressed by the concentric rings.\"Adan Vallecillo was born in Danli (Honduras) in 1977. After studying at the National School of Fine Arts in Tegucigalpa (1995) he attended the School of Visual Arts in San Juan and graduated from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras with a degree in sociology. His career includes dozens of solo and group exhibitions and workshops in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States of America.