Rodrigo Sassi
Since Rodrigo Sassi’s early urban interventions–like his temporary installations in the dumps of São Paulo, in which he reorganised in a poetic fashion the litter contained–the street has always represented both the rationale for his work and its support, as well as its raw material. Most of his work is now done in studios but it is obvious that his three-dimensional art pieces have had previous lives of their own. The Brazilian artist composes his installation-sculptures with the same basic instruments as those used to build the skeleton of a city: wooden moulds and concrete, poured in order to erect the pillars and beams of skyscrapers. But Sassi changes the natural order of things and restores a new meaning to them–giving them rounded and curved shapes, Sassi softens a material which is rigid and raw by nature. The wooden moulds, which are usually thrown away after use on construction sites, are given a second life. Through the marks left by the passage of time over their successive uses, the moulds give Sassi’s abstract shapes a narrative aspect, evidence of a preexisting life.
He has had solo exhibitions at Centro Cultural São Paulo, Museu da Sustentabilidade in São Paulo, Gallery Nosco …
Since Rodrigo Sassi’s early urban interventions–like his temporary installations in the dumps of São Paulo, in which he reorganised in a poetic fashion the litter contained–the street has always represented both the rationale for his work and its support, as well as its raw material. Most of his work is now done in studios but it is obvious that his three-dimensional art pieces have had previous lives of their own. The Brazilian artist composes his installation-sculptures with the same basic instruments as those used to build the skeleton of a city: wooden moulds and concrete, poured in order to erect the pillars and beams of skyscrapers. But Sassi changes the natural order of things and restores a new meaning to them–giving them rounded and curved shapes, Sassi softens a material which is rigid and raw by nature. The wooden moulds, which are usually thrown away after use on construction sites, are given a second life. Through the marks left by the passage of time over their successive uses, the moulds give Sassi’s abstract shapes a narrative aspect, evidence of a preexisting life.
He has had solo exhibitions at Centro Cultural São Paulo, Museu da Sustentabilidade in São Paulo, Gallery Nosco in London, and MdM Gallery in Paris. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and Blumenau Museum of Art, among other institutions.
Courtesy of Gallery Nosco
MAB – Museu de Arte de Blumenau, Blumenau, Brazil
Centro Cultural Dannemann, Recôncavo, Brazil
Gallery Nosco, London, UK
MdM Gallery, Paris, France
