For his second solo exhibition in collaboration with the gallery, Arcangelo Sassolino is presenting eight new works created specifically for the spaces in Lugano, enhancing the specific character of the site’s architecture.

Every limitation of the space has thus become an added value in the artist’s creative process: whether it is the distance between the columns or the concrete wall, the various spatial and material constraints have been transformed into opportunities and have become constituent elements of the sculptures presented and of the entire exhibition project.

The gallery and the curator have invited the artist to bear witness to and develop the path that has run through his entire research, which has been marked from the outset by an incessant activity to liberate sculpture not only from its purely monumental function, but much more radically from the assumptions and foundations that have shaped its history and its expressive possibilities, thus making it a place of sensitive experience open to contemporary reflection.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue in Italian and English, published by Magonza, with texts by Andrea Cortellessa, Paolo Repetto and a conversation between the curator and the artist.