Giuseppe Inglese was born in Rivoli in 1978 and he currently lives and works in Settimo Torinese. In 1998 he enrolled at the University of Turin to pursue a degree in Philosophy. In the years spent at university, he mainly focused on topics concerning the ego, and the world and its reciprocal relations, from a psychological, sociological and philosophical perspective. All these brought about a solid knowledge of the sense of reality. He also focused on Freud and Jung’s psychoanalytical theories, and by combining them with the most recent findings in cognitive psychology, he was able to analyse the relation between thought – understood as in conscious and unconscious experience – and human reactions on both emotional and behavioural levels. He also attended several courses on child drawings’ grapho-analytical interpretation, which allowed him to achieve a better understanding of the connection between the deep ego, graphic signs and colour.
In those years Inglese was also able to enhance his knowledge on aesthetics as the “science of the sensory perception”, and on foundation concepts such as the external world intended as “unemendable”, or the connection between conceptual schemes and emotional experience, and between experience and mnemic imprint.
Paramount to his academic development was the discovery of Kant’s theoretical and pragmatical criticism, together with Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Köhler, Max Wertheimer and Bozzi’s studies on perception. As a result, he was exposed to the existential writings of Beckett, Dostoyevsky, Kafka and Camus, which, in turn lead him to the rational philosophical works of Sartre and Heidegger.
It was in this context that he developed his passion for art, conceived as an aesthetic moment of synthesis, in which all instances materialize and the “being” reveals itself in all its completeness. He practiced different painting techniques in various local artists’ studios and in 2011 he opened his first atelier, where he kept developing his personal research and artistic work. 2012 was a year of deep inner transformation for the artist, which lead to the birth, in 2013, of the first hand woven luminescent sculpture in stainless steal wire, which characterises the artist’s current production. In 2014 he started collaborating with several art galleries.
Many existential questions characterize the first, exclusively pictorial, phase of his work. In the early period he focused his research on topics such as the shape-background relation, the fullness of the being, its materiality, the world’s fragmentation, the confusion and the strain of living and interacting with the other. Every human being, “who exists because he is in the world”, lives in an everchanging condition, plunged into absurd existential problems, facing endless possibilities which enable him to make decisions and plans for himself based on an ethics of truth and authenticity. At the same time, the very same possibilities leave him obstructed and powerless.
Inglese’s research soon shifted from the “presence of the being” to that of the “non-being”. As Sartre wrote, “nothingness brings the being into one’s heart”. From matter to soul, from the fullness and crusty texture of material surfaces to emptiness, which gains meaning and value through the graphic mark and the dynamism of intertwined metal wires. In line with the belief that art is a representation of unity and a moment of synthesis between all aspects of being, the metal weaving becomes both the artist’s script, an unconscious expression of a deep self, and at the same time, movement and essence of the artwork.
Selection Exhibitions
2024
- “Nel cuore del mondo” – Permanent art installation at the Ecomuseo del Freidano in Settimo Torinese, Turin
2023
- Opening of new personal showroom in Settimo Torinese (Turin)
2022
- “Fly” – Public installation at the Enrico Berlinguer Park in Settimo Torinese (Turin)
- Milano Scultura, at the stand of the Damiani Art Gallery (Milan)
- “Un bacio ancora” Collective exhibition – Museum of Asolo (Treviso)
- “Switch” collective exhibition organised by Vecchiato Arte at the headoffice of the Law Firm
“Greggio Avvocati d’Impresa” in Padua
- “Presence_Absence” – Collective exhibition – Vecchiato Art Gallery (Padova)
2021
- Italy 35×35 Art Project Copelouzos family Art Museum (Atene)
- “Serendipity” – Collective exhibition – Vecchiato Art Gallery (Padova)
- “We are who we are” – Collective exhibition – Vecchiato Art Gallery (Padova) 2020
- Pubblication of my art work on the CD “Innehalten” of Prof. Dr. Lioba Werth (Münster, Germania) - Some of my art works have been used in the “Dadi Rooms” project of the “Down Dadi”, in collaboration with Design2Taste and the Vecchiato Art Gallery
2019
- Vecchiato Art Gallery -“Unspotted” – Personal exhibition (Padova)
- Dissolvenze – Collective exhibition – Museo Diocesano di Padova
- Cibart 2019 – Collective exhibition – Seravezza (Lucca) 2018
- Official artist at the 4th edition of Art for Excellence
2017
- Collective exhibition of Premio Combat Price finalists at Vecchia Fortezza of Livorno
- Shortlisted for the 8th edition of Premio Combat Prize, in the “sculpture and installation” category
2016
- Artworks exhibited in Padua at the “Vecchiato Arte” art gallery
2015
- Euroluce – International lighting Fair, at LEUCOS SPA’s stand
- LEUCOS SPA acquires the monumental work “Un nuovo giorno” (A new day”), making it the symbol of the company’s rebirth and displays it on the cover of their catalogue containing its design products
Public and private collection:
- “Un nuovo giorno”, Leukos illuminazioni SPA