Daniele Accossato

Daniele Accossato (Turin, 1987) is a contemporary sculptor. At the age of fifteen he identified sculpture as a congenial communicative method, a place where necessity takes shape. In 2011 he graduated with honours from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. When talking about art and sculpture, he remarks “it is fun-damental that each person constantly works to find their own medium, the medium that can lead to the most captivating self-expression and to a constant and constructive confrontation with others”.

His research takes its movement from technique, from the alchemy of sculpture, from the icons that identify our cultural and artistic heritage, to then explore the inner dynamics of the human being and the common aesthetic sense. The subjects chosen are archetypes, symbolic images that resonate with us as part of our culture so we may internalise it, filter it and thus overcome it. In its aspect of citation there is a feeling of gratitude even if, in Accossato’s work, these icons are somehow mistreated, concealed, forced, sacrificed. The symbolic act of ‘kid-napping’ iconic works from the past is a desecration: it represents the need to free oneself from an education or tradition that can be limiting in certain cases, freeing oneself from preconceptions and beliefs.

At the same time, it is a way to revive these symbols considered untouchable and make them priceless, closer to us and more human.
His latest phase of research takes form in a cycle of original works, where the artist attempts to give space to sculptural instinct and freedom of gesture. The well-modelled sculpture in the round leaves space for the ‘un-finished’ to embrace a broader reflection on the act of modelling and the process of the work’s construction, in both its conception and creation phases. An innovative research in which Accossato seeks to free himself from classical icons, not disowning the past but realising the need to go forward in his research, passing as a necessi-ty through the deconstruction of the figure.

PRIZE

2019

“3° Biennale di Genova” – First prize

2013

“Toro d’Acciaio” – Pacatissima IX – Torino

2012

“Academy Pride”, finalist – Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti Primo

“Concorso Antonio Canova II” – finalist

2011

“Ugo Guidi” , first prize – MS

“Premio Nazionale delle Arti” , finalist – Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli