Arcangelo Sassolino

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Arcangelo Sassolino
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Born1967
NationalityItalian
OccupationSculptor

Arcangelo Sassolino (born 1967) is an Italian artist known for his sculptures that uses technology. [1]

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Early life

Sassolino was born in 1967 in Vicenza, Italy. [2] He was raised in Trissino, near Vicenza, in the north-east of Italy. [3] 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 (which is a fundamental aspect of his work). He works around concepts such caducity, loss, unpredictability, danger, failure.

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Bibliography

Note

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