in the end, the beginning - Arcangelo Sassolino
Italian sculptor Arcangelo Sassolino uses technology and mechanics to reveal the inner life of his raw materials. Extreme force, tension, speed, heat and gravity are all harnessed to bring about dramatic transformations, to test the physical limits of matter, the fragile balance between control and surrender. Why, he asks, cannot sculpture flow like time instead of being cold, rigid and devoid of the vital energy that produced it?
Photographed for Mona 2025
Curated by Sarah Wallace, Jarrod Rawlins and Olivier Varenne
Arcangelo Sassolino: in the end, the beginning exhibition view. Including: the paradoxical nature of life, 2023 Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
the paradoxical nature of life, 2023, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
the paradoxical nature of life (detail), 2023, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
the paradoxical nature of life (detail), 2023, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
the paradoxical nature of life (detail), 2023, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Arcangelo Sassolino: in the end, the beginning exhibition view. Including: the paradoxical nature of life, 2023 marcus, 2018 Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
marcus, 2018, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
marcus, 2018, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
marcus, 2018, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
marcus, 2018, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
violenza casuale, in the end, the beginning, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
violenza casuale, in the end, the beginning, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
violenza casuale, in the end, the beginning, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
in the end, the beginning (detail), 2025, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
in the end, the beginning (detail), 2025, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
in the end, the beginning (detail), 2025, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Arcangelo Sassolino with in the end, the beginning, 2025. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
no memory without loss (detail), 2025, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
no memory without loss (detail), 2025, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
no memory without loss (detail), 2025, Arcangelo Sassolino. Photo credit: Jesse Hunniford Image courtesy Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.