An exhibition of\u00a0<\/b>DANIELE ACCOSSATO\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
curated by Beatrice Audrito\u00a0\u00a029 June | 29 July 2024\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0Opening: Saturday 29 June at 7:00 pm<\/p>\n
On Saturday 29 June, the\u00a0Kyro Art Gallery\u00a0<\/b>in Pietrasanta is pleased to present\u00a0Imperfetto\u00a0 (in)finito<\/b>, an exhibition dedicated to\u00a0Daniele Accossato<\/b>, curated by\u00a0Beatrice Audrito<\/b>.<\/p>\n
The exhibition is an occasion to take stock of the sculptor\u2019s work, which calls into question his\u00a0 research conducted up until now on the reproduction of classical icons from our cultural heritage\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 kidnapped,\u00a0then bound, gagged or locked in wooden crates\u00a0\u2013\u00a0to open us up to a broader reflection\u00a0 on sculpture and the meaning of making art. What is art? Which aesthetic canons does a work of<\/p>\n
art belong to? When is a work considered finished? These are some of the questions posed by\u00a0 Accossato who, in this exhibition, distances himself from the concept of classical beauty\u00a0\u2013\u00a0in the\u00a0 academic sense of the term\u2013\u00a0to arrive at new aesthetic and formal solutions. This gives rise to an\u00a0 original cycle of works where artist attempts to give space to sculptural instinct and freedom of<\/p>\n
gesture, passing, by necessity, through the deconstruction of the classical figure. The well-modelled\u00a0 sculpture in the round gives way to the \u2018un-finished\u2019, to embrace a broader reflection on the act of\u00a0 modelling and the process of the work\u2019s construction, in both its conception and creation phases. A\u00a0 concept that captures the sculptor in a moment of profound revision of his work, without denial of\u00a0 the past but in the realisation that he must continue his research by going elsewhere to renew its\u00a0 language and questions.<\/p>\n
The works on display, created using different techniques and materials, give shape to the many\u00a0 questions Accossato seeks to answer, becoming a metaphor for the reflection on the act of creating\u00a0 art that also questions the role of the artist himself. The act of sculpting and shaping matter no\u00a0 longer belongs just to the artist but becomes a physical need, a primordial instinct that belongs to\u00a0 the adult as it does to the child who, demiurge-like, gives form to the things of this world. It is an act\u00a0 that must, by necessity, be shared with the public through the creation of a participatory work that\u00a0 allows those present to enter into the artist\u2019s work, inviting people to take an active part in the\u00a0 process of creating it, in a playful and shared dimension. What then is the role of the artist? How\u00a0 can its legitimisation take place? What is the role of the user?\u00a0Imperfetto (in)finito\u00a0<\/b>is an intimate\u00a0 journey into Daniele Accossato\u2019s sculptural universe that embraces a new phase of his research,\u00a0 returning the role of art and the artist back to the centre: to pose questions about the world in order\u00a0 to stimulate reflection and open a dialogue with the user.<\/p>\n
DANIELE ACCOSSATO<\/p>\n
Daniele Accossato (Turin, 1987) is a contemporary sculptor. At the age of fifteen he identified\u00a0 sculpture as a congenial communicative method, a place where necessity takes shape. In 2011 he\u00a0 graduated with honours from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. When talking about art\u00a0 and sculpture, he remarks \u201cit is fundamental that each person constantly works to find their own\u00a0 medium, the medium that can lead to the most captivating self-expression and to a constant and\u00a0 constructive confrontation with others\u201d.<\/p>\n
His research takes its movement from technique, from the alchemy of sculpture, from the icons that\u00a0 identify our cultural and artistic heritage, to then explore the inner dynamics of the human being\u00a0 and the common aesthetic sense. The subjects chosen are archetypes, symbolic images that resonate\u00a0 with us as part of our culture so we may internalise it, filter it and thus overcome it. In its aspect of<\/p>\n
citation there is a feeling of gratitude even if, in Accossato\u2019s work, these icons are somehow\u00a0 mistreated, concealed, forced, sacrificed. The symbolic act of \u2018kidnapping\u2019 iconic works from the\u00a0 past is a desecration: it represents the need to free oneself from an education or tradition that can be\u00a0 limiting in certain cases, freeing oneself from preconceptions and beliefs. At the same time, it is a\u00a0 way to revive these symbols considered untouchable and make them priceless, closer to us and more\u00a0 human.<\/p>\n
His latest phase of research takes form in a cycle of original works, where the artist attempts to give\u00a0 space to sculptural instinct and freedom of gesture. The well-modelled sculpture in the round leaves\u00a0 space for the \u2018un-finished\u2019 to embrace a broader reflection on the act of modelling and the process\u00a0 of the work\u2019s construction, in both its conception and creation phases. An innovative research in\u00a0 which Accossato seeks to free himself from classical icons, not disowning the past but realising the\u00a0 need to go forward in his research, passing as a necessity through the deconstruction of the figure.\u00a0 Among his most important exhibitions and projects:\u00a0Walking #1<\/b>, Kyro Art Gallery, Pietrasanta\u00a0 (Lu)\u00a0Ossimori del contemporaneo<\/b>, Kyro Art Gallery, Pietrasanta (LU),\u00a0Per via del tutto\u00a0 eccezionale<\/b>, Fondazione Filiberto e Bianca Menna, Rome,\u00a0Talent Prize 24<\/b>, Paratissima, Turin,\u00a0 2023\u00a0INNESTI23<\/b>, GASC., Milan, 2022\u00a0MY FAB 4<\/b>, The Koppel Project, London, 2021\u00a0Le\u0301gami Lega\u0300mi<\/b>, Kyro Art Gallery, Pietrasanta (LU),\u00a0De-Location<\/b>, Palazzo Tagliaferro, Andora, 2021\u00a0\u00a0Project Room #7 Daniele Accossato<\/b>, Davide Paludetto Arte contemporanea, Turin, 2018\u00a0\u00a0Lost. L\u2019Arte ritrovata<\/b>, Museo Archeologico di Salerno, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5530,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5528","mostra","type-mostra","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyroartgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mostra\/5528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyroartgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mostra"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyroartgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mostra"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyroartgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyroartgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyroartgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyroartgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}