Arcangelo Sassolino (born 1967) is an Italian artist known for his sculptures that uses technology.
Early life
Sassolino was born in 1967 in Vicenza, Italy. He was raised in
Trissino
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, near
Vicenza
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, in the north-east of
Italy
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. In his 20s, he created a three-dimensional puzzle game recalling the
Rubik's Cube
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, and was hired by Robert Fuhrer and Nextoy, LLC, representatives of Casio Creative Products, for which worked for 6 years in
New York
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, inventing and developing original and innovative toys and games. In 1996 Sassolino went back to Italy, where he worked on marble sculpture in
Pietrasanta.
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.
Solo exhibitions
*Superdome,
Palais de Tokyo,
Paris
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. 29/5/2008 – 24/8/2008
*Time Tomb, Z33 House for Contemporary Art],
Hasselt
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. 0/5/2010 – 29/8/2010
*Piccolo animismo, Macro,
Rome
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. 9/3/2011 – 12/6/2011
*Not Human,
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
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, 15/1/2016 – 3/4/2016
*Mechanism of Power, Frankfurter Kunstverein,
Frankfurt
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. 19/2/2016 – 17/4/2016
*Canto V, Galleria Continua,
San Gimignano
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. 21/9/ 2016 – 15/1/2017
*Matter Revealed Repetto Gallery, London. 4/10/2017 – 29/10/2017
Group exhibitions
*Materia-Niente,
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa,
Venice
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. 26/4/2001 – 30/6/2001
*Temi & variazioni
*La scultura italiana del XXI secolo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro],
Milan
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. 29/10/2010 – 30/ 1/ 2011
*Under Destruction,
Museum Tinguely
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,
Basel
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– 15/10/2010 – 23/1/2011;
Swiss Institute
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, 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, CCC Strozzina,
Florence
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– 5/10/2012 – 27/1/2013
*Follia Continua ! 104 Le Centroquatre,
Paris
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– 21/10/2015 – 21/11/2015
*The Transported Man
road Art Museum East Lansing. 29/4/2017 – 22/10/2017
*Porto Marghera 100
Doge's Palace
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,
Venice
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, 4/11/2017 – 28/1/2018
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
* Giulia Zandonadi
''Il ritmo della materia. Forma e tempo nell'opera di Arcangelo Sassolin''o 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
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, supervisor
Silvia Grandi
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.
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1967 births
Living people
Italian male sculptors
Italian contemporary artists