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Arcangelo Sassolino was born in Vicenza, Italy in 1967, where he lives and works.

Sassolino’s sculptures and installations explore mechanical behaviours, materials, and physical properties of force. By applying these properties to the natural world and behaviours, the artist examines the friction between industrial progress and environmental concerns.

Sassolino’s works are carefully planned and researched, resulting in constructions of a high degree of physicality and forces applied by or on an object, as he pushes materials past their physical limitations. The tension, the expectation, and the awareness of risk—along with the powerful aesthetics of the works—play key roles in the experience of the spectators.

Arcangelo Sassolino has had solo exhibitions at Pearl Lam Galleries H Queen’s, Hong Kong, China (2018); Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (2017); Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, Germany (2017); Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (2016); the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany (2016); Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (2010); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2008); and MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy (2011), among others. He also presented an environmental project at Z33 Center for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium (2010) and in the context of Art and The City, Zurich, Switzerland (2012).

His works have been shown in public institutions such as Grand Palais, Paris, France; Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, USA; Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy; Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Punta del Este, Uruguay; Le 104, Paris, France; MART Museum, Rovereto, Italy; Swiss Institute, New York, USA; Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; FRAC Museum Regional, Reims, France; Autocenter and MICA MOCA, Berlin, Germany; Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland; CCC Strozzina, Florence, Italy; Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy; Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; and Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019

Arcangelo Sassolino, fragilissimo, Galleria dello Scudo, Verona, Italy

Arcangelo Sassolino, Villa Medici, Roma, Italy

2018

Arcangelo Sassolino: Warped Matter, Curved Time, Pearl Lam Galleries H Queen’s, Hong Kong

Conflitti, Philipp von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, DEU

The Way We Were, Galleria Continua/Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, FRA

2017

Matter Revealed, Repetto Gallery, London, UK

2016

Canto V, Galleria Continua, S.Gimignano, Italy.

Damnatio Memoriae, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, Germany.

Mechanisms of Power, curated by Franziska Nori, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany.

Not Human, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, CAM Museum, St. Louis, USA.

2014

Nicola Carrino - Arcangelo Sassolino, Villa Pisani Bonetti, Stra, Italy.

2011

Piccolo Animismo, MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy.

2010

Arcangelo Sassolino, Nicola Von Senger, Zurich, Swizterland.

Time Tomb, House of contemporary art, Hasselt, Belgium.

Qui e Ora, Galleria Continua, S. Gimignano, Italy.

2008

Superdome, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.

Critical Mass, Feinkost, Berlin, Germany.

2007

Arcangelo Sassolino, Nicola von Senger, Zurich, Switzerland.

2006

Momento, Galleria Galica, Milan, Italy.

2004

Rimozione, Galleria Arte Ricambi, Verona, Italy.

2001

Concrete Matters, Galleria Grossetti, Milan, Italy.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019

Artistic Intelligence, Kunstverein, Hannover, DEU, curated by Sergey Harutoonian

2018

Artistes & Robots, Grand Palais, Paris, FRA

2017

The Transported Man, curated by Marc- Olivier Wahler, Broad Art Museum, MSU, USA

2016

Torre di Babele, curated by Pietro Gaglianò, ex Fabbrica Lucchesi, Prato, Italy.

Art Club #7 / Mémoires d’été, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy.

Prototypology, curated by Aaron Moulton, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy.

2014

Arte contemporanea a Villa Pisani, Villa Pisani Bonetti, Stra, Italy.

A Chromatic Loss, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, Bortolami Gallery, New York, USA.

About Sculpture #1, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, Germany.

2013

Garage Grit, curated by Thomas Mareck, MU, Eindohoven, Netherlands.

2012

Francis Bacon e la condizione esistenziale nell’arte contemporanea, curated by Franziska Nori and Barbara Dawson, CCC Strozzina, Florence, Italy.

Art and the city, curated by Christoph Doswald, Zurich, Switzerland.

Beyond occupied images, curated by Tevz Logar, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2011

Percorsi riscoperti dell’arte italiana nella VAF-Stiftung 1947 – 2010, curated by Gabriella Belli and Daniela Ferrari, MART, Trento, Italy.

Artisti D’Italia, Ex Chiesa della Madonna del Duomo, Arezzo, Italy.

Broken Fall (Organic), Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna, Italy.

Interferenze costruttive, Fondazione Menegaz, Castelbasso, Italy.

Under Destruction, curated by Chris Sharp / Gianni Jetzer, Swiss Institute, New York, USA.

2010

Sphères 3 2010, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Chatel, France.

As Soon As Possible, L’accelerazione nella societá contemporanea, curated by Franziska Nori, CCC Strozzina, Florence, Italy.

La Scultura Italiana del XXI secolo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy.

Under Destruction, Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland.

Videodrome, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany.

Ottocento Veneziano, Veneziano Contemporaneo, Museo di Villa Pisani, Stra, Italy.

Idoles, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France.

2009

Aspekte des sammelns, Essl Museum, Wien, Austria.

Italian Open!, curated by Art at Work, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Zweckgemeinschafft, curated by Art at Work, Micamoca, Berlin, Germany.

Sleeper, Brown, London, UK.

Themes and Variations, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy.

2008

Disarming Matter, curated by Chris Sharp, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden.

Chateau de Tokyo, curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler, Fontainebleu, France.

Visionary Collection Vol. 6, at Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland.

2007

What You See is What You Guess, curated by Francois Quentin and Alessandra Pace, FRAC, Rheims, France.

Ginnunggagap, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.

2006

Faster! Bigger! Better!, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.

2005

Premio A.Fabbri, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Germany.

Maggi, Chiesa di S.Agostino, Bergamo, Italy.

Visioni Bergamo, curated by Bruno Corà, Alberto Fiz, Marco Meneguzzo, Annamaria

2003

Mito-Logica-Mente, curated by Silvia Pegoraro, Borgo Medievale, Castelbasso, Italy.

N/E, curated by Simone Menegoi, Fondazione O’Artoteca, Milan, Italy.

2001

Materia-Niente, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy.