San Gimignano
Beijing
Les Moulins
Habana
Roma
Sao Paulo
Paris
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.
2023
Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Roma, Italy
4th Industrial Art Biennial (IAB 04), Labin, Croatia
MITICO 2023 Belmond, Deià, Mallorca, Spain (until the end of October 2023)
2022
Il vuoto senza misura, Atipografia, Arzignano
2021
Il vuoto senza misura , Philipp von Rosen Galerie, Köln
2019
Arcangelo Sassolino, fragilissimo, Galleria dello Scudo, Verona, Italy
Arcangelo Sassolino, Art Club #29, Académie de France - 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.
2022
Spazi Capaci/Comunità Capaci, Curated by Alessandro de Lisi Fondazione Falcone, Palermo
Le Songe d’Ulysse, Curated by Francesco Stocchi Fondation Carmignac Villa Carmignac, île de Porquerolles
Diplomazija Astuta, Curated by Keith Sciberras, Jeffrey Uslip Malta Pavilion, 59. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte Venice *
Welt in der Schwebe. Luft als künstlerisches Material , Curated by Barbara J. Scheuermann, Anna Döbbelin Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
2021
The 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Antarctic Resolution with Giulia Foscari/UNLESS Venice
2020
Golem, curated by Raphie Etgar, Museum On The Seam, Jerusalem
Attraverso le avanguardie, APE Parma Museo, Parma, IT
Labor & materials, 21c Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, US
2019
Artistes & Robots, Grand Palais, Paris, FRA
Biennale des Arts Numériques Némo. Jusqu’ici tout va bien? Curated by Gilles Alvarez and José-Manuel Gonçalves, Le Centquatre, Paris, FRA
The Only Stable Things, Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, Venice, IT
Materie prime. Artisti italiani contemporanei tra terra e luce, Rocca Roveresca, Senigallia, IT
A Story That Was(n’t), Accademia di Brera, Milan, IT
Artistic Intelligence, Kunstverein, Hannover, DEU, curated by Sergey Harutoonia
2018
Artistes & Robots, curated by Laurence Bertrand Dorléac and Jérôme Neutres, Grand Palais, Galeries Nationales, Paris, FRA
2017
The Transported Man, curated by Marc- Olivier Wahler, Broad Art Museum, MSU, USA
Flow. Arte contemporanea e cinese in dialogo, curated by Maria Yvonne Pugliese and Peng Feng, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza
Greffes (Grafts) / Innesti, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Académie de France - Villa Medici, Rome
Porto Marghera 100 1917-2017, curated by Gabriella Belli and Paolo Apice, Palazzo Ducale, Venice
Rebuilding Spaces. Dieci artisti in dialogo sul concetto di spazio, curated by Niccolò Bonechi, Castello del Monferrato, Casale Monferrato
Storie e opere, Palazzo Clemente, Fondazione Malvina Menegaz Castelbasso, Teramo
2016
Torre di Babele, curated by Pietro Gaglianò, ex Fabbrica Lucchesi, Prato, Italy.
Vertigo au rendez-vous des amis, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Punta del Este, UruguayArt Club #7 / Mémoires d’été, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy.
Prototypology, curated by Aaron Moulton, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy.
2015
Prosopopées: quand les objets prennent vie, curated by Némo Gilles Alvarez and José-Manuel Gonçalvès, Le Centquatre, Paris
Follia Continua!, curated by José-Manuel Gonçalvès, Le Centquatre, Paris *
Signori prego si accomodino, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, studio Scatturin, Venice
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.
