Arcangelo Sassolino

Arcangelo Sassolino
Born 1967
Montecchio Maggiore
Nationality Italian
Occupation sculptor

Arcangelo Sassolino was raised in Trissino, near Vicenza, in the north-east of Italy.

In his young age (20s), he created a three-dimensional puzzle game recalling the Rubik's Cube, and was hired by NextToy/CASIO, for which worked for 6 years in New York. During his long stay in the American metropolis and from his many trips to Japan he matured artistic interests.

In 1996 Sassolino went back to Italy, where he'd work on marble sculpture in Pietrasanta for a couple of years. His artistic path started to take shape in 1998, when, once back to his hometown Trissino, created his laboratory and started creating his art.

Artistic Path

In Sassolino's works the spectators find themselves in front of well known industrial materials, such as stainless steel, glass or concrete. He uses these materials into mechanical/thermodynamical fantastic machines, that make the elements reach their limits: extreme speed, friction, gravity, heat, pressure.

Sassolino's sculptures are inorganic performances in which machines take life, get broken by contrast and conflict of forces, on the verge of a breakdown (which is a fundamental aspect of his work). He works around concepts such caducity, loss, unpredictability, danger, failure.

His main exhibition have been at the fr:Palais de Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis e de:Frankfurter Kunstverein.

Collective Exhibitions

Materia-Niente[1] (Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice. 26/4/2001 - 30/6/2001)

Temi & variazioni[2] (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. 21/3/2009 - 17/5/2009)

La scultura italiana del XXI secolo[3] (Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan. 29/10/2010 - 30/ 1/ 2011)

Under Destruction[4] (Museum Tinguely, Basel - 15/10/2010 - 23/1/2011; Swiss Institute, New York 6/4/2011 - 8/5/2011)

Art and the City (Zürich-West. 9/6/2012 - 23/9/2012)

Francis Bacon e la condizione esistenziale nell'arte contemporanea[5] (CCC Strozzina, Florence - 5/10/2012 - 27/1/2013)

Follia Continua ! (104 Le Centroquatre, Paris - 21/10/2015 - 21/11/2015)

The Transported Man[6] (Broad Art Museum, East Lansing. 29/4/2017-22/10/2017)

Porto Marghera 100 (Doge's Palace, Venice, 4/11/2017-28/1/2018)

Personal Exhibitions

Superdome (Palais de Tokyo, Paris. 29/5/2008 - 24/8/2008)

Time Tomb[7] (Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt. 0/5/2010 - 29/8/2010)

Piccolo animismo[8] (Macro, Rome. 9/3/2011 - 12/6/2011)

Not Human[9] (Contemporary Art Museum,Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Saint Louis. 15/1/2016 - 3/4/2016)

Mechanism of Power [10](Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt. 19/2/2016 - 17/4/2016)

Canto V[11] (Galleria Continua, San Gimignano. 21/9/ 2016 - 15/1/2017)

Matter Revealed (Repetto Gallery, London. 4/10/2017 - 29/10/2017)

Bibliography

  • Gabriele Guercio e Anna Mattirolo (a cura di), Il confine evanescente. Arte italiana 1960-2010, 2010, Electa, pag.188-189
  • Francis Bacon e la condizione esistenziale nell’arte contemporanea, exhibit's catalogue by Franziska Nori and Barbara Dawson, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi. October 5, 2012- January 27, 2013
  • ART AND THE CITY, A public art project, catalogo della mostra. Zurigo 9 giugno-23 settembre 2012. Curator Christoph Doswald, JRP Ringier Verlag, Zurich.
  • A.A.V.V., l’arte del XX secolo. Tendenze della contemporaneità 2000 e oltre, 2010, Skira, pag 270-271
  • AAVV, Vitamin 3-D, New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation. An up-to-the-minute survey of contemporary sculpture and installation featuring 117 artists, Phaidon Editors, 2009, pag 266-267
  • Jasper Sharp (edited by), Arcangelo Sassolino, JRP Ringier, 2009. Under Destruction, If nothing can be created, then something must be destroyed, edited by Gianni Jetzer - Chris Sharp, catalogue of the exhibition, Tinguely Museum Basel, Swiss Institute New York, 2010, Published by Distanz.
  • Luca Illetterati e Arcangelo Sassolino, 6 words 20 works, Padova University Press, Padova, 2016 ISBN 9788869380556
  • Giulia Zandonadi, Il ritmo della materia. Forma e tempo nell'opera di Arcangelo Sassolino, tesi di laurea magistrale, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, relatore Nico Stringa, correlatore Stefania Portinari, a.a. 2013/2014
  • Giulia Plebani, Arcangelo Sassolino. Materiali ai limiti della resistenza, master's degree thesis, University of Bologna, supervisor Silvia Grandi.

Note

  1. ↑ "Materia-niente".
  2. ↑ "Temi & Variazioni".
  3. ↑ "La scultura italiana del XXI secolo".
  4. ↑ "Under Destruction".
  5. ↑ "Francis Bacon".
  6. ↑ "The Transported Man".
  7. ↑ "Time Tomb".
  8. ↑ "Piccolo animismo".
  9. ↑ "Not Human".
  10. ↑ "Mechanism of Power".
  11. ↑ "Canto V".
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