SOLD - Giuseppe Rivadossi (Nave, July 8, 1935) Pacher sideboard, 2015

Giuseppe Rivadossi (Nave, July 8, 1935) Pacher sideboard, 2015 in walnut wood 106 x 110 x 42 cm Sideboard with two doors in solid walnut worked against the grain. The asymmetrical shape of the upper surface and the type of workmanship, which gives particular emphasis and "movement" to the wood grain, make this piece of furniture truly fascinating. Having inherited his interest in art from his father Clemente, Rivadossi officially began his artistic career in the sixties, approaching the study of furniture and sculpture in wood, plaster, terracotta and bronze. Many are therefore the materials used in his creations, always inspired by man, his values and his "living". Giuseppe Rivadossi says: I have seen wood being worked since I was a child. Until the 1960s, where I live now, the relationship between man and man, man and nature, was still based on an ancient ethic. Then industry arrived and with it the looting began. The hope for a less hard life soon turned into a bitter realization. The new technology, which was supposed to be just a more perfected instrument, turned out to be an instrument of frustration and general disintegration. 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. 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 lies before us more than of nostalgia for the past.