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A chance event at the end of the Fifties, when he was trying to give form to a work in iron, revealed to him a physical tendency of the material to undergo centrifugal divergence, leading him to the utilization and the combination of the diagonal with the vertical axis. Thus, using stone, wood, lead, iron and, above all, stainless steel and beton lave, he made compositions such as \u201cThe Prow\u201d, which are balanced on vertical and inclined levels, while at the same creating the impression of a potentially revolving movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Greek of the diaspora, Philolaos settled in Paris after the war. 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