Oxidized and polished bronze sculpture
Work by the Master Giuseppe Rivadossi (Nave, 1935)
measures: cm 63 x 19 x 36
Bust of a young man captured as he looks into the distance with a thoughtful demeanor.
Giuseppe Rivadossi
Having inherited his interest in art from his father Clemente, Rivadossi officially began his artistic career in the 1960s, approaching the study of sculpture in bronze, wood, and terracotta, and taking an interest from the beginning in the domestic space, which 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, his exhibition season as a sculptor began, which would see him exhibit in various national and international artistic 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, and 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, twenty-five years ago, where I now live, the relationship between man, man, and man, nature, was still based on an ancient ethic.
Then industry arrived, and with it began the looting.
The hope for a less hard life soon turned into a bitter realization.
The new technology, which was only supposed to be a more perfected tool, turned out to be an instrument of frustration and general disintegration.
Now, in this situation, I feel more and 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 for 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.
Moving forward, I realized that these things had to be built according to deep and precise needs.
I thus found myself working on containers (furniture) and sculptures with an appearance increasingly in contrast with the environment, which was degenerating and becoming impoverished, and I realized that these things of mine were taking on greater and greater significance, both for the form of building them and for the material used. I then partly abandoned the function of containing for a different function.
I thus arrived at these latest images in which the idea of a different way of living, of living inside (inside life, inside the things of life) is figured through structures that I create starting from a precise design and recovering as a primary language all the common techniques of carpentry.
Now these images, these sculptures, and this furniture are born from the depths of my experience as a song, of that hope and that only alternative that lies before us more than of nostalgia for the past.
Giuseppe Rivadossi
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