SOLD - Giuseppe Rivadossi (Nave, July 8, 1935) Sideboard, year of production 1970

Sideboard in patinated oak, composed of a central body and two lateral corner units. The central body has four drawers and four wooden and glass "windowed" doors in the typical style of the famous designer. The two lateral corner units, which can be opened by means of a wooden and glass windowed door, can be easily detached from the central body and used in other parts of the house. The central part, perfectly "finished" also on the two sides, can therefore also be used alone. This particular construction of the furniture makes it extremely versatile and easy to insert. Measurements: - completely assembled cm 94x277x48 - corner units cm 94x48x48 - central sideboard cm 94x180x48 Giuseppe Rivadossi (Nave, July 8, 1935) year of production 1970 Giuseppe Rivadossi Having inherited a passion for art from his father Clemente, Rivadossi officially began his artistic career in the 1960s, approaching the study of furniture, wood sculpture, terracotta and bronze work, taking an interest from the outset in the domestic space that would later become one of the key themes of all his work. In the 1970s, thanks to the attention of friends such as Francesca Amadio and important gallery owners such as Renato Cardazzo, Elio Palmisano and Alfredo Paglione, he began his exhibition season as an artist and sculptor that saw him exhibit at various national and international art events such as the Milan Triennale (1974), the Menton Biennale (1976), the Rotonda della Besana (1980), the Palazzo del Ridotto in Cesena (1996) and the Galleria d'arte moderna Palazzo Forti in Verona (2005). Among others, Giovanni Testori, Vittorio Sgarbi, Roberto Tassi, Gianfranco Bruno, Marco Vallora, Ermanno Olmi, Giorgio Cortenova, Piercarlo Santini, Mario Botta have written about the work and poetics of Giuseppe Rivadossi. Giuseppe Rivadossi says: I have seen wood being worked since I was a child. I have seen forests grow and trees of every size and quality cut down. I have seen my father transform these woods into marvelous barrels and beautiful carts for the neighboring farmers. Until twenty or twenty-five years ago, where I live now, the man-man, man-nature relationship was still based on an ancient ethic. Then industry arrived and with it the plunder began. The hope of a less harsh life soon turned into a bitter observation. The new technology that was supposed to be just a more perfected tool turned out to be an instrument of frustration and general disintegration. Now in this situation I feel ever more deeply the need to express that sense of fundamental unity of existence, as a basic idea not to be lost or to be rediscovered at all costs every day and in everything. I consider the environment in its totality of nature and human intervention, the unique work of art to which everything belongs and in which we all are. I believe that (Art) is all the work of man and, speaking of my work (which I consider for what it is, only a very small part of that unique work in which we all, for better or worse, operate and live) I will tell you that I, too, like my father, started by building furniture and various things in wood for my people. Going forward I realized that these things had to be built according to deep and precise needs. So I found myself working on containers (furniture) and sculptures with an appearance increasingly in contrast with the environment that, degenerating, was transforming and impoverishing itself, and I realized that these things of mine were taking on ever greater significance, both for the way I built them and for the material used (wood). So I abandoned in part the function of containing for a different function. So I arrived at these latest images, in which the idea of a different living, of a living inside, (inside life, inside the things of life) is figured through structures that I realize starting from a precise design and recovering as a primary language all the common technique of carpentry. Now these images, these sculptures and these pieces of furniture are born from the depths of my experience as a song, of that hope and of that only alternative that stands before us more than of nostalgia for the past. Giuseppe Rivadossi The work, like every other object of ours, is sold with certificates of authenticity and lawful origin. We personally take care of and organize the packaging and shipping of works of art with insurance all over the world