Duilio Forte

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Duilio Forte
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Forte in 2010
Born5 November 1967 (1967-11-05) (age 56)
Milan, Italy
NationalitySwedish-Italian
Alma mater Polytechnic University of Milan
Website www.atelierforte.com

Duilio Forte (born 5 November 1967) is a Swedish-Italian artist and architect. [1] [2] He works primarily with wood and iron, creating large sculptures and unique exterior sculptural saunas. [3] [4] He teaches at the Nuova Accademia Belle Arti di Milano and other institutions in Italy. [3] [2]

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Early life

Forte was born in Milan in 1967 and is half Italian, and half Swedish. [1] [2] His Italian father, Ettore Forte, was a surgeon and his Swedish mother was a housewife. [5]

He studied architecture at Polytechnic University of Milan, graduating in 1994. [3] In 1994, he won the first prize in the San Carlo Borromeo at La Permanente of Milan with the Ekeberg Sauna, constructed in Sweden.

Career

After college, Forte continued designing and building outdoor saunas, with each being a unique architectural design. [6] On March 13, 1998, Forte founded AtelierFORTE, an architecture and sculpture research laboratory. [1] [3] AtelierFORTE specializes in unique outdoor saunas and other architectural installations. [6] Its structures are designed according to Forte's ArkiZoic Manifesto, written in 2009 on the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin . [6] [2] The manifesto defines his style which is characterized by a union of architecture and the geologic periods. [3] It includes eight points: method, evolution, mathematics, representation, structure, symmetry, materials, and decoration. [3]

Since 2003, Forte has organized and taught StugaProject, an annual art and architecture workshop near the town of Grythyttan in Sweden. He also teaches materials technologies at Nuova Accademia Belle Arti di Milano in Milan, Italy. [3]

In 2008, Forte participated in the 11th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice, creating the installation Sleipnir Venexia. [6] [7] In 2010, he was again invited to participate in the International Architecture Exhibition of Venice and created the installation Sleipnir Convivalis. [8] [9] His Sleipnir series is inspired by the legend of Trojan horse and the Norse myth of Odin's eight-legged horse; it features sculptures that are up to 60 feet (18 m) tall. [1] [2] Forte also participated in the XXI Triennale International Exhibition of Milan in 2016 with his zoomorphic work URSUS. [2] [4]

Curator Beppe Finessi described Forte's process: "His whole life is a workshop. He is the veritable 'Craftsman' of the Italian architecture, both designer and builder. He doesn't need to talk to the workers or constantly see what they are doing. He does everything himself. His pencil is a saw, his AutoCAD is a welder. He makes everything he needs with his own hands, partly because it would be very difficult to explain to anyone else what's going on inside his complicated, visionary, fantastic head." [10]

Forte became a member of the Swedish Association of Architects in 2005 and was nominated for the Yakov Chernikhov International Prize for young architects in 2010. [11] [3]

Personal life

Forte lives in Milan a former textile factory that he purchased in 1998. [1] [5] The 5,400 square feet (500 m2) building is more than 100 years old. His brother, Lucio, is an artist who lives in an adjacent factory building. [1]

Exhibitions

Works

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Duilio forte, progetto ursus, 2016, 01

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