Arcangelo Sassolino

Arcangelo Sassolino 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, near Vicenza, in the north-east of Italy. In his 20s, he created a three-dimensional puzzle game recalling the Rubik's Cube, and was hired by Robert Fuhrer and Nextoy, LLC, representatives of Casio Creative Products, for which worked for 6 years in New York, 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. He works around concepts such caducity, loss, unpredictability, danger, failure.

Solo exhibitions

Superdome, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. 29/5/2008 – 24/8/2008
Time Tomb, Z33 House for Contemporary Art], Hasselt. 0/5/2010 – 29/8/2010
Piccolo animismo, Macro, Rome. 9/3/2011 – 12/6/2011
Not Human, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 15/1/2016 – 3/4/2016
Mechanism of Power, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt. 19/2/2016 – 17/4/2016
Canto V, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano. 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. 26/4/2001 – 30/6/2001
Temi & variazioni
La scultura italiana del XXI secolo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan. 29/10/2010 – 30/ 1/ 2011
Under Destruction, Museum Tinguely, Basel – 15/10/2010 – 23/1/2011; Swiss Institute, 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 – 5/10/2012 – 27/1/2013
Follia Continua ! 104 Le Centroquatre, Paris – 21/10/2015 – 21/11/2015
The Transported Man, East Lansing. 29/4/2017 – 22/10/2017
Porto Marghera 100 Doge's Palace, Venice, 4/11/2017 – 28/1/2018