ARCANGELO SASSOLINO Vicenza, 1967
Arcangelo Sassolino’s signature visual vocabulary is both ethological and mechanized, poetic and menacing, pushing materials past their physical limitations to demonstrate Modemism’s process of becoming and unbecoming. His kinetic sculptures employ industrial materials and technologies to mine the harrowing consequences and destructive qualities in which societies must engage to evolve, perhaps eschewing empathy more than ever in our contemporary culture. Marshaling the expertise of industrial and mechanical engineers, Sassolino’s works implicate the viewer in the immanent tension and expectation embedded in the sculpture’s visceral aesthetic language. Arcangelo Sassolino has had solo shows at the Contemponary Ant Museum, Saint Louis (2016), the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2016), the MACRO, Rome (2011), the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2008), the Z33 Center for Contemporary Art, Hasselt (2010), and Ad and the City, Zurich (2012). His works have been exhibited in galleries and museums, including 104, Paris, the MART, Rovereto, the Guggenheim Collection, Venice, the FRAC, Reims, Autocenter and Mica Moca, Berlin, the Tinguely Museum, Basel, the Swiss Institute, New York, CCC Strozzina, Florence, the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, the Kunsthalle, Goppingen, the ZKM Karlsruhe, and the Fondazione Amaldo Pomodoro, Milan.
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