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Following the splendid retrospective at the Archaeological Museum in Naples in June 2018 in which he juxtaposed his works with the classical sculptures and objects from the museum’s collections, over the last year Aron Demetz has produced a set of totally new pieces. Galleria Doris Ghetta is delighted to present these sculptures at Volta Basel. In this recent collection, Demetz once again moves away from the aesthetics of classical sculpture by relating representation of the human body to the visible traces of the production process. A striking example of this is the bronze casting channels …