Giuseppe Rivadossi (Nave, July 8, 1935) PORTRAIT 1/5, year 2005 - Plaster sculpture

Plaster sculpture. Measurements: 81 x 50 x 24.5 cm Portrait idealized by Maestro Rivadossi of "Giuseppe" ("Giosef" to his friends) one of his best collaborators in those years. The work, irreverent and fun, lays bare the psychology and the joyful and playful character of the model represented. Giuseppe Rivadossi (Nave, July 8, 1935) Having inherited his interest in art from his father Clemente, Rivadossi officially began his artistic career in the sixties, approaching the study of sculpture in wood, plaster, terracotta, and bronze, and taking an interest, from the very beginning, in domestic space, which subsequently became one of the key themes of his entire body of work. In the seventies, 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 a sculptor, which included exhibiting at 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 Palazzo Forti Modern Art Gallery 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 Giuseppe Rivadossi's work and poetics. 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 being cut down. I have seen my father transform these woods into wonderful barrels and beautiful carts for the neighboring farmers. Until twenty or twenty-five years ago, 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, looting began. The hope for a less harsh life soon turned into a bitter realization. The new technology, which was only meant to be a more refined tool, proved 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 the 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, just a very small part of that unique work in which we all operate and live well or badly), 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, degenerating, was transforming and impoverishing, and I realized that these things of mine were taking on ever greater significance, both for the way they were built and for the material used (wood). 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 of that one alternative that lies before us, more than of nostalgia for the past. Giuseppe Rivadossi The work, like all our other objects, is sold accompanied by certificates of authenticity and lawful origin. We personally take care of and organize the packing and shipping of the works of art with insurance all over the world.