Giancarlo Neri

{{short description|Italian sculptor}}

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Giancarlo Neri is a sculptor born in Naples in 1955.

Career

Perhaps his best-known work is The Writer, a 9-metre-high table and chair made from steel plated with wood, a piece about writer's block. It has been exhibited in Rome and on Hampstead Heath in London in 2005.{{cite news

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| date=22 June 2005 | accessdate=23 December 2010}} The structure was dismantled in Hampstead Heath four months later and sent back to Italy.{{Cite web |last=Osley |first=Richard |date=2014-06-20 |title=That time we had a giant table and chair on Hampstead Heath |url=https://richardosley.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/that-time-we-had-a-giant-table-and-chair-on-hampstead-heath/ |access-date=2024-10-26 |website=Richard Osley |language=en}}

At one time he played professional soccer for the New York Apollo of the American Soccer League.

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