Sergio Dangelo
{{Short description|Italian painter (1932–2022)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Sergio Dangelo
| birth_date = 19 April 1932
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|1|4|1932|4|19|df=y}}
| death_place = Milan, Italy
| occupation = Painter
}}
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Sergio Dangelo (19 April 1932 – 4 January 2022) was an Italian surrealistic painter and illustrator. He was the founder of the Arte nucleare movement, part of the nuclear art tendency, and was a co-founder of the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus.
Life and career
Born in Milan, Dangelo made his studies between Italy, France and Switzerland, and lived for several years in Brussels, where he got in contact with surrealist and avant-garde circles, notably the COBRA group.{{cite news |last1=Maida |first1=Desirée |title=Morto l'artista Sergio Dangelo |url=https://www.artribune.com/arti-visive/arte-contemporanea/2022/01/morto-artista-sergio-dangelo-pittura-nucleare-enrico-baj/ |access-date=15 January 2022 |work=ArTribune |date=5 January 2022 |language=it-IT}} Back in his hometown, in 1951 Dangelo founded with Enrico Baj the Arte nucleare movement, and held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria San Fedele in Milan.{{cite news |title=Milano, è morto Sergio Dangelo: addio "all'ultimo surrealista" |url=https://www.ilgiorno.it/milano/cronaca/sergio-dangelo-morto-1.7220236 |access-date=15 January 2022 |work=Il Giorno |date=6 January 2022 |language=it}} In 1953 he founded with Baj and Asger Jorn the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus{{cite book |last1=Rüedi |first1=Katerina |title=Bauhaus Dream-house: Modernity and Globalization |date=2010 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-47581-5 |pages=93–4 |language=en}} and in 1954 he founded with them and organized in Albisola the Incontri Internazionali della Ceramica (International Meetings of Ceramics).{{cite news |author1=Nicoletti, Luca Pietro |title=Addio a Sergio Dangelo, l'ultimo surrealista |url=https://ilmanifesto.it/addio-a-sergio-dangelo-lultimo-surrealista/ |access-date=15 January 2022 |work=Il manifesto |date=5 January 2022 |language=it-IT}}
Besides his "nuclear paintings", Dangelo is well known for the “Hand-made” (a name given to them by Marcel Duchamp in 1960), i.e. a series of collage paintings composed of fragments of various objects and materials. His works were exposed in numerous art festivals, including the São Paulo Art Biennial, the Biennale de Paris, the Rome Quadriennale and six editions of the Venice Biennale.
Collections
Dangelo's work is included in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC,{{cite web |title=Sergio Dangelo The International Avant-Garde, No.6, published 1962 |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.48895.html |publisher=National Gallery of Art |access-date=15 January 2022}} the Israel Museum,{{cite web |title=Sergio Dangelo: The Long Valley |url=https://www.imj.org.il/en/search/site/Sergio%20Dangelo |publisher=Israel Museum |access-date=15 January 2022}} and in the Museo MAGA in Gallarate, Italy.{{cite web |title=Sergio Dangelo |url=https://artfacts.net/artist/sergio-dangelo/12139 |publisher=ArtFacts.net |access-date=15 January 2022}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/sergio-dangelo/ Sergio Dangelo] at Treccani
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Category:20th-century Italian painters