Selected Works
Arcangelo Sassolino, Untitled, 2023, Concrete, 54x54x9,5 cm
Arcangelo Sassolino, I due mondi, 2020, Glass, steel, polyester, 149 x 100 x 15 cm
Arcangelo Sassolino, I due mondi (detail), 2020, Glass, steel, polyester, 149 x 100 x 15 cm
Arcangelo Sassolino, Sconfinamento curvo, White reinforced concrete, 2021, 85 x 68,5 x 6,5
Arcangelo Sassolino, Coercizione (detail), 2020, paper and steel, 29.5 x 46 x 28 cm
Arcangelo Sassolino, L'imprevisto, 2018, Ski, steel, pvc, 177 x 33 x 9 cm
Arcangelo Sassolino, L'imprevisto (detail), 2018, Ski, steel, pvc, 177 x 33 x 9 cm
Arcangelo Sassolino, Núcleo, 2015, Glass and steel, 33 x 58 x 26 cm
Arcangelo Sassolino, I.U.B.P, 2017, Rubber and steel, 70 x 29 x 86 cm
Arcangelo Sassolino, I.U.B.P (detail), 2017, Rubber and steel, 70 x 29 x 86 cm
Arcangelo Sassolino, Untitled, 2018, Black cement, 109 x 107 x 14 cm
Arcangelo Sassolino
Born 1967, Italy
Sassolino’s works and installations explore mechanical behaviours, materials and physical properties of force. Each work takes careful planning, research and results in constructions that are stunning both in terms of their sheer physicality (material density, mechanical precision) and the forces (gravity, pressure, friction) which are applied by or to an object. The tension and the expectation that come with the awareness of risk, play a huge role in the viewers experience, together with a strong unique aesthetic.
Arcangelo Sassolino had solo presentations at Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2008), at MACRO Museum in Rome (2011), with a special mention to the enviromental project presented in Z33 Center for Contemporary Art in Hasselt (2010) and in the context of Art and The City in Zurich (2012).
His works were shown also in public institutions and collections at MART Museum in Rovereto and at Guggenheim Collection in Venice, FRAC Museum Regional of Reims, Autocenter and Mica Moca in Berlin, Tinguely Museum Basel, CCC Strozzina in Florence, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice, Kunsthalle in Goppingen, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro in Milano.
In January 2016 his solo exhibitions will be held at CAM/Contemporary Art Museum in Saint Louis, curated by Jeffrey Uslip and at Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt, curated by Franziska Nori.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
SCONFINAMENTI, curated by Keith Sciberras University of Malta, La Valletta, MT
2023
MITICO, Identity and uprooting, Galleria Continua x La Residencia, Deià, Mallorca, ESP
2022
Instabile come la speranza, curated by Daria Carmi, Sinagoga di Casale Monferrato, IT
Physis, Arte Sella, Borgo Valsugana, Trento, ITA
Il vuoto senza misura, Atipografia, Arzignano, Vicenza, ITA
Form et Temps, Galleria Continua, Paris, FRA
2019
Fragilissimo, Galleria dello Scudo, Verona, ITA
Arcangelo Sassolino, Villa Medici, Roma, ITA
2018
Confitti, Philipp von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, DEU
The Way We Were, Galleria Continua/Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, FRA
Warped Matter, Curved Time, Pearl Lam Gallery, Hong Kong
2017
Matter revealed, Repetto Gallery, London UK, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero
2016
Canto V, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, IT
Damnatio Memoriae, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, DEU
Mechanisms of Power, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DEU curated by Franziska Nori
Not Human, CAM Museum, St. Louis, USA curated by Jefrey Uslip
2014
Arcangelo Sassolino, Villa Pisani Bonetti, Lonigo, IT curated by Luca Massimo Barbero
2011
Piccolo Animismo, MACRO Museum, Rome, IT
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
ON THE ROCKS, Galleria Continua, Paris, FR
Stanze, Galleria dello Scudo, Verona, IT
ITALIA 70 – I NUOVI MOSTRI Curated by Massimiliano Gioni Fondazioni Trussardi, Milano, IT
TORN CURTAIN, Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero and Hélène de Franchis Studio la Città, Verona, IT
2023
Caravaggio, Van Dyck, Sassolino, Tre Capolavori a Vicenza, curated by Guido Beltramini and Francesca Cappelletti Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, IT
Tensione Continua, curated by Carlo Falciani, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, IT
Percorsi, Galleria dello Scudo, Verona, IT
UNVEILED, Piercing Wrapping Carving Straining Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Cernobbio, IT
Libertà di avere tre idee contrastanti, curated by Costantino D'Orazio, Premio Michetti 2023, Fondazione Michetti, Francavilla a Mare, IT
Landscape of Desire, curated by Christoph Doswald and Paolo Bianchi, 4th Industrial Art Biennial (IAB 04), Labin, HR
2022
L’Europa non cade dal cielo, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Treviso, ITA
Spazi Capaci/Comunità Capaci, Curated by Alessandro de Lisi, Fondazione Falcone, Palermo, ITA
Diplomazija Astuta, Curated by Keith Sciberras, Jeffrey Uslip, Malta Pavilion, 59. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Venice, ITA
2019
The only stable thing, Palazzo Contarini, Venezia, ITA curated by Lucia Longhi
Artistic Intelligence, Kunstverein, Hannover, DEU, curated by Sergey Harutoonian
2018
Artistes & Robots, Grand Palais, Paris, FRA,
curated by Laurence Bertrand Dorl and Jéròme Neutres
2017
The Transported Man, Broad Art Museum, MSU, East Lansing, USA, curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler
Porto Marghera 100, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, IT, curated by Gabriella Belli
2016
Vertigo, Fundaciòn Pablo Atchugarry, Punta del Este, URY,
curated by Luca Massimo Barbero
La Torre di Babele, ex Fabbrica Lucchesi, Prato, IT
Art Club # 7, Villa Medici, Rome, IT
curated by Franziska Nori
Prototypology, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, IT, curated by Aaron Moulton
A Chromatic Loss, Bortolami Gallery, New York, USA, curated by Jefrey Uslip
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Arcangelo Sassolino
Arcangelo Sassolino (born 1967, Vicenza) is an Italian artist known for his mechanical sculptures and installations.
Sassolino uses industrial materials, such as stainless steel, glass or concrete, to create fantastic mechanical/thermodynamic machines that push elements to their limits: extreme speed, friction, gravity, heat, pressure, etc. Sassolino's sculptures are inorganic performances in which machines take life and battle conflicting physical forces until they are on the verge of a breakdown. Working around concepts such as caducity, loss, unpredictability, danger, suspense and failure, Sassolino distills his works with anthropomorphic character, creating intimate encounters between man and machine.