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 Nuclear art was an artistic approach developed by some artists and painters, after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Conception and origins In the days, weeks and years following the atomic bombing of Japan, trained and untrained artists wh ...

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. Back in his hometown, in 1951 Dangelo founded with

Enrico Baj Enrico Baj (October 31, 1924 – June 15, 2003)June 15 according to the Guardian, June 17 according to the-artists.org was an Italian artist and writer on art. Many of his works show an obsession with nuclear war. He created prints, sculptur ...

the Arte nucleare movement, and held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria San Fedele in Milan. In 1953 he founded with Baj and Asger Jorn the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus and in 1954 he founded with them and organized in

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the Incontri Internazionali della Ceramica (International Meetings of Ceramics). 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 São Paulo Art Biennial (Portuguese: ''Bienal de São Paulo'') was founded in 1951 and has been held every two years since. It is the second oldest art biennial in the world after the Venice Biennale (in existence since 1895), which serves as ...

, the Biennale de Paris, the Rome Quadriennale and six editions of the Venice Biennale. Dangelo died in Milan on 4 January 2022, at the age of 89.

Collections

Dangelo's work is included in the permanent collection of the

National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of char ...

, Washington DC, the

Israel Museum The Israel Museum ( he, מוזיאון ישראל, ''Muze'on Yisrael'') is an art and archaeological museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world’s leading encyclopa ...

, and in the

Museo MAGA The Museo Arte Gallarate or MAGA is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Gallarate, in the province of Varese in Lombardy in northern Italy. It was founded in 1966 as the Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Gallarate to house works purchased ...

in Gallarate, Italy.

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Sergio Dangelo
at '' Treccani'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Dangelo, Sergio 1932 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Italian painters Italian surrealist artists Painters from Milan 21st-century Italian painters