About

Sergio Dangelo was born in Milan in 1932. Painter of international scope, he studied in Milan, Paris, Geneva and Brussels where he frequented the surrealist circles and the Cobra group, developing the free expression of the unconscious through a sign-gestural painting with dense chromatic matter and violent, with fast and lyrical manual skills. In 1950 he took part in the third surrealist convoy. His first exhibition in 1951 at the San Fedele Gallery in Milan, in which he exhibited the famous “nuclear” paintings, marks the birth of the Nuclear Movement, of which he is the creator and animator together with Enrico Baj. They place irony, unscrupulousness and experimentalism at the basis of their artistic creations. And ‘one of the founders of the magazine “Il Gesto”, organ of the Nuclear Movement, published between il1955 and 1959 while in 1957 endorses the manifesto Contro lo Stile. Since then there have been numerous exhibitions in the avant-garde gallery (650 personal, 1600 collective) and the invitations of museums. He has been invited to the San Paolo Biennale (4 editions), the Paris Biennale (3 editions), the Rome Quadriennale (the first edition), the Venice Biennale (6 editions with a personal room in 1966), the Milan Triennale (5 editions; with Ettore Sottsass, entrance hall, 1960), while there are about 134 publications concerning him.

Parallel to his activity as a painter and writer, Sergio Dangelo creates ceramics, paintings on enameled sheet metal, lithographs, etchings, objects, which the artist likes to define “hand-mades”, because the emphasis is on manipulation rather than on find in itself, and appear as strange assemblages fixed on ground planes and free in space. In 1991 he founded the Bludiprussia Artistic and Cultural Center in Albisola Marina with Carla Bordoni, Paola Grappiolo and Daniela Di Marco. On 21 July 1998 he founded in Milan “The new manifest constructivism” with Orazio Bacci. The movement produced 5 exhibitions between 2002 and 2007 held in Milan in the spaces of the historic Bocca bookshop, each accompanied by a catalog published by the bookshop, in which a total of 80 artists participated. Sergio Dangelo’s pictorial language is refined, poetic, lyrical, with an evident surrealist, cultured and interior suggestion.