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 The International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus was a small European avant-garde artistic tendency that arose out of the breakup of COBRA, and was initiated by contact between former COBRA members Asger Jorn and Enrico Baj and Sergio Dangelo ...

Life and career

Born in Milan, Dangelo made his studies between Italy, France and Switzerland, and lived for several years in

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, where he got in contact with surrealist and avant-garde circles, notably the

COBRA COBRA or Cobra, often stylized as CoBrA, was a European avant-garde art group active from 1948 to 1951. The name was coined in 1948 by Christian Dotremont from the initials of the members' home countries' capital cities: Copenhagen (Co), Brussels ...

group. Back in his hometown, in 1951 Dangelo founded with

Enrico Baj Enrico Baj (31 October 1924 – 16 June 2003) was an Italian artist and writer on art. Many of his works show an obsession with nuclear war. He created prints, and sculptures but especially collage. He was close to the surrealist and dada mo ...

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 Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 – 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. The largest collection of Jorn's works� ...

the

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 Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, ; ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, Futurism and conceptual art. He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Pica ...

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

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and six editions of the

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. 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

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, Washington DC, the

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, and in the

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, Italy.

References

External links

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