Sergio Dangelo
Milano, 1932 - 2022
Since 1951, with Enrico Baj, he has been the animator of the "Movement of Nuclear Art", an antirealist group among the European avant-garde; the San Fedele gallery in Milan exhibits his famous "nuclear" paintings and since then the exhibitions in the avant-garde galleries have become very numerous.
He attends the Berchet High School in Milan. He himself claims to have performed his first opera in class, during a lesson in mathematics. It is a drawing with the bizarre title Lunch for 136 people of which 2 very hungry from which you can already recognize particular gifts of imagination and imagination. Thanks to his father Alberto, whose library is rich in European literature, he deepened his culture; he made trips to Europe and in 1948, in Brussels, made an act of "absolute surrealism". Since 1951, with Enrico Baj, he has been the animator of the "Movement of Nuclear Art", an antirealist group among the European avant-garde; the San Fedele gallery in Milan exhibits his famous "nuclear" paintings and since then the exhibitions in the avant-garde galleries have become very numerous. The manifesto of nuclear painting, written by the same two founders and published in Brussels, expresses the urgency of elaborating a new artistic language that can represent the state of anguish of contemporary society. The organ of the movement is the magazine "Il Gesto" (International Exhibition of Free Forms), of which Dangelo is founder. In 1955 in Milan the artist organized the exhibition of the same name. Meet the artists of the group "Cobra" and the surviving writers of the Revolutionary Surrealist Group. He spread in Italy the work of free artists including precisely the "Cobra", the Swedish Imagineers, Lucio Fontana and Jasper Jorn.
Dangelo organizes with the latter and Tullio d'Albisola the famous meeting of Albisola (summer 1954) attended by Appel, Baj, Corneille, Fontana, Matta and Scanavino. In 1955 in Milan he organized the eponymous exhibition. In 1957 he met E.L.T. Mesens in London and this friendship caused a change in his artistic life.
In parallel with his work as a painter, Dangelo collaborates with the magazine "Phantomas", writes about art on theoretical texts and reasoned catalogues; he dedicates himself to fire ceramics, realizes objects (Hand-mades) painted on enamelled metal, lithographs, etchings, illustrations for poetic texts and organizes expositions popularizing the surrealist idea. In his art there are neodadaist and surrealist elements, reworked in the various techniques that the author uses. The compositions in diptychs and triptychs, the use of various techniques, the variability of color, suggest the idea of continuous metamorphoses, multiplicity of points of observation and a perennial correlation of images.
Arturo Schwarz in 1896 presents his painting La Chaine des Rouges Pommieres and the wooden sculpture L'Arbre d'Amour at the Venice Biennale "Art and Alchemy". Since 1989 Dangelo is a member of "Actual" and has become "ecstatic", living, in practice, aware that "something happens".
He is often invited to exhibit in museums, at the Triennale (four editions), at the Biennials of Venice (five editions, 1958, 1964, 1966, 1980, 1986, with personal room in 1966) and at the Quadriennale of Rome in 1986.
In 1992 the Galleria Michelangelo in Bergamo hosted an important personal exhibition.
Museums:
Albisola Mare, Savona, Fondazione Museo Giuseppe Mazzotti, 1903
Albisola Capo, Savona, Museo della ceramica Manlio Trucco
Gallarate, Varese, Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna
Vicenza, Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Sede Museale di Banca Intesa
Tolentino, Macerata, Museo storico Castello della Rancia, Sez. Arte Contemporanea
Bibliography:
Il collezionista d’arte moderna, Torino, Giulio Bolaffi Editore, 1963; Enciclopedia Universale Seda della Pittura Moderna, Milano, Seda, 1969; Sergio Dangelo, Catalogo della mostra, Bergamo, Galleria Michelangelo, 1992
Dangelo organizes with the latter and Tullio d'Albisola the famous meeting of Albisola (summer 1954) attended by Appel, Baj, Corneille, Fontana, Matta and Scanavino. In 1955 in Milan he organized the eponymous exhibition. In 1957 he met E.L.T. Mesens in London and this friendship caused a change in his artistic life.
In parallel with his work as a painter, Dangelo collaborates with the magazine "Phantomas", writes about art on theoretical texts and reasoned catalogues; he dedicates himself to fire ceramics, realizes objects (Hand-mades) painted on enamelled metal, lithographs, etchings, illustrations for poetic texts and organizes expositions popularizing the surrealist idea. In his art there are neodadaist and surrealist elements, reworked in the various techniques that the author uses. The compositions in diptychs and triptychs, the use of various techniques, the variability of color, suggest the idea of continuous metamorphoses, multiplicity of points of observation and a perennial correlation of images.
Arturo Schwarz in 1896 presents his painting La Chaine des Rouges Pommieres and the wooden sculpture L'Arbre d'Amour at the Venice Biennale "Art and Alchemy". Since 1989 Dangelo is a member of "Actual" and has become "ecstatic", living, in practice, aware that "something happens".
He is often invited to exhibit in museums, at the Triennale (four editions), at the Biennials of Venice (five editions, 1958, 1964, 1966, 1980, 1986, with personal room in 1966) and at the Quadriennale of Rome in 1986.
In 1992 the Galleria Michelangelo in Bergamo hosted an important personal exhibition.
Museums:
Albisola Mare, Savona, Fondazione Museo Giuseppe Mazzotti, 1903
Albisola Capo, Savona, Museo della ceramica Manlio Trucco
Gallarate, Varese, Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna
Vicenza, Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Sede Museale di Banca Intesa
Tolentino, Macerata, Museo storico Castello della Rancia, Sez. Arte Contemporanea
Bibliography:
Il collezionista d’arte moderna, Torino, Giulio Bolaffi Editore, 1963; Enciclopedia Universale Seda della Pittura Moderna, Milano, Seda, 1969; Sergio Dangelo, Catalogo della mostra, Bergamo, Galleria Michelangelo, 1992
