Arcangelo Sassolino

Italy, 1967

Sassolino’s work is the result of a close dialogue between art and physics. His interest in mechanics and technology opens up new meanings and possibilities for sculpture. Speed, pressure, gravity, acceleration and heat are the core of his artistic practice, which is always aimed at pushing the ultimate limit of matter’s resistance.

His works usually consist of devices that generate inorganic performances. The materials involved, often industrial, come alive revealing contrasts and opposing forces. His works embody intrinsic conflicts and push us to contemplate the risk of the work’s collapse as a fundamental part of its experience. By exploring different states of matter, Sassolino’s works manifest a level of tension, suspension, unpredictability and danger. Insofar as failure is always a concrete possibility, his works materially embed an inescapable aspect of the human condition. He lives and works in Vicenza, Italy.

Sassolino’s work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, at Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Museo MACRO, Rome; Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt; Académie de France – Villa Medici, Rome; Arte Sella, Borgo Valsugana, Trento.