Arcangelo Sassolino

Arcangelo Sassolino (born 1967) 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 (which is a fundamental aspect of his work). 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 [Broad Art Museum], East Lansing. 29/4/2017 – 22/10/2017
 * Porto Marghera 100 Doge's Palace, Venice, 4/11/2017 – 28/1/2018