Daniele Accossato
2023
“La potenza del pensiero”, a cura di Silvio Mignano e Antonello Tolve; Residenza dell’Ambasciata d’Italia – Berna Svizzera
2022
“Sono la luce che vedo”, testi di Claudio Cerritelli e Massimo Dona’, a cura di Giorgio T. Costantino Fondazione Giovani Leoni – Mirano (VE)
“Il permanere del segno”; Kyro Art Gallery – Pietrasanta (LU)
2020
“Elogio della leggerezza”, Kyro Art Gallery – Pietrasanta (LU )
2018
“L’immagine dell’immaginarsi”, Ivo Prandin e Massimo Donà, Fondazione Giovani Leoni – Mirano (VE)
“Pittura di Guerra”, Dino Marangon, Palazzo Frisacco – Tolmezzo (UD )
“ Pittura di Guerra”, Dino Marangon, Villa Brandolini – Pieve di Soligo (TV)
2017
Galerie Rother-Winter , Wiesbaden – Germania
2016
“Ode alla Pittura” , Marco Goldin, Palazzo Sarcinelli, Conegliano (TV )
2015
“Amore e scelta” a cura della Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Abbazia di Rosazzo (UD)
2014
Galeria Sur, Punta del Este – Uruguay
2011
Forte Mezzacapo “Arte in difesa / In difesa dell’arte” – Zelarino (VE)
“Pinocchiando con…” Fondazione Nazionale Collodi, Mestre (VE)
2010
Museo Pablo Atchugarry, Manantiales, Punta del Este – Uruguay
Collezione 7×11 “La Poesia degli artisti” Palazzo Gregoris – Pordenone (PN)
“Pinocchiando con…” Chiara Tavella e Michele Beraldo, Fondazione nazionale Carlo Collodi – Collodi (PT)
2009
Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery – Hong Kong
Galerie Lamber, Valkenswaard – Olanda
“ Italia dipinta” , IULM, Milano, a cura di Marina Pisoni – Milano (MI)
“Pittura d’Italia. Paesaggi veri e dell’anima” , Marco Goldin, Castel Sismondo – Rimini (RN)
2005
Galerie Lamber, Valkenswaard – Olanda
2004
“ Eins bis Zehn” , 10 jahre Galerie Rother, Galerie 40 Rother, Wiesbaden – Germania
2002
“Per Amore” a cura di Marco Goldin, 15 anni di scelte a Palazzo Sarcinelli, Conegliano ( TV)
2001
Zwolshe Algemeene, Nieuwegein by Contemporary Art Centre, Shalkwijk – Olanda
2000
“Wat’s new”, Contemporary Art Centre, Schalkwijk – Olanda
1999
“Elogio del pastello”, a cura di Marco Goldin; palazzo Sarcinelli – Conegliano (Tv)
Galerie Kom Dom’ Art, Rucphen – Olanda
1998
“Aperto Vetro, International new Glass” a cura di Attilia Dorigato, Dan Klein, Rosa Barovier Mentasti, Murano (VE)
1997
“Pitture”, Museo Civico di Catania e Foyer del Teatro, Comiso ( RG)
“Una donazione per un nuovo Museo” a cura di Marco Goldin, Museo di Palazzo Sarcinelli – Conegliano (TV)
1996
“Arie Italiane“, Museo di Trnava, Repubblica Ceca
“Tra Figurazione e astrattismo”, Galleria Flaviostocco – Castelfranco Veneto (TV)
“Pitture”, a cura di Marco Goldin, Ca’ dei Carraresi, Treviso e spazio Lanzi – Bologna (BO)
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
2024
“ Imperfetto (In) finito, Kyro Art Gallery Pietrasanta (Lu) curator by Beatrice Audrito
2021
“Project Room °7 Daniele Accossato”, Davide Paludato Arte Contemporanea – Turin
2017
“Lost. L’Arte ritrovata” Museo Archeologico di Salerno
2015
“Daniele Accossato” Galleria Franz Paludetto, Turin
2013
“Grigio Assoluto” PIX 2013v Edition – Bordo Filadelfia – MOI – Turin
2024
“ Walking # 3”, Daniele Accossato, Claudio Gaddini, Ilaria Gasparroni, Simoncini.Tangi – Kyro Art Gallery – Pietrasanta (LU)
“Per via del tutto eccezionale”, Fondazione Filiberto e Bianca Menna, Roma, curator Antonello Tolve
“Ossimori del contemporaneo” Kyro Art Gallery, Pietrasanta (Lu), curator Beatrice Audrito
“Talent Prize 24”, Paratissima – Torino
2023
“INNESTI23”, GASC., Turin
2022
“MY FAB 4”, The Koppel Project, London
2021
“Lègami – Legámi”, Kyro Art Gallery, Pietrasanta (Lu)
“Context”, Art Miami – Miami
2020
“Volta ArtFair” , Armory Week, New York
2019
“Wings”, Isorropia Homegallery, Milan
“Scope Art Show”, MonShareArt – Miami
2017
“Sculpture project” MAUTO Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile – Turin
2015
– “Sweet Death”, 56th Biennale of Venice Guatemala Pavillon, Venice
“Transmutazioni” Coffe Festival, Berlin, S.Vittore Church, Vercelli
2014
“Scolpiti dalla crisi”, Palazzo Biraghi, Torino / Castello di Rivara Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivara, (To)
2013
“TransFactory”, parco Dora, Turin
“Art Jungle”, Reggia di Venaria Gardens, Venaria Reale, Turin
2012
“Iconoclastia” Carrara Marble Week, Carrara
“Maestri e giovani artisti dell’Accademia Albertina di Torino”, Marmara University, Instanbul
2010
“Garantito Accademia”, Studiodieci, Vercelli