My City, year 1977 - Giuseppe Rivadossi Nave (Brescia) 1935

Monolithic wild lime structure finished with a gouge cut. Signed and dated by the artist. Measurements: cm 71x59x36 Giuseppe Rivadossi (Nave, July 8, 1935) Having inherited an interest in art from his father Clemente, Rivadossi officially began his artistic career in the sixties, approaching the study of wood sculpture, terracotta, and bronze working, being interested from the beginning in the domestic space that would later become one of the key themes of all his work. In the seventies, thanks to the attention of friends such as Francesca Amadio and important gallery owners such as Renato Cardazzo, Elio Palmisano and Alfredo Paglione, his exhibition season began as a sculptor who would exhibit in various national and international artistic events such as at the Milan Triennale (1974), the Menton Biennale (1976), the Rotonda della Besana (1980), the Palazzo del Ridotto in Cesena (1996) and the Galleria d'arte moderna Palazzo Forti in Verona (2005). Among others, Giovanni Testori, Vittorio Sgarbi, Roberto Tassi, Gianfranco Bruno, Marco Vallora, Ermanno Olmi, Giorgio Cortenova, Piercarlo Santini, Mario Botta have written about the work and poetics of Giuseppe Rivadossi. Giuseppe Rivadossi says: I have seen wood being worked since I was a child. I have seen forests grow and trees cut down to every measure and quality. I saw my father transform these woods into wonderful barrels and beautiful carts for the neighboring farmers. Until twenty or twenty-five years ago, where I now live, the relationship man-man, man-nature, was still based on an ancient ethic. Then industry arrived and with it began the plundering. The hope of a less hard life soon turned into a bitter realization. The new technology that was only supposed to be a more refined instrument turned out to be an instrument of frustration and general disintegration. Now in this situation I feel more and more deeply the need to express that sense of fundamental unity of existence, as a basic idea not to be lost or to be found at all costs every day and in everything. I consider the environment in its totality of nature and human intervention, the unique work of art to which everything belongs and in which we all are. I believe that (Art) is all the work of man and, speaking of my work (which I consider for what it is, only a very small part of that unique work in which we all more or less operate and live) I will tell you that I too, like my father, started building furniture and various wooden things for my people. Going forward I realized that these things had to be built according to deep and precise needs. I found myself thus working on containers (furniture) and sculptures with an appearance increasingly in contrast with the environment that degenerating was transforming and impoverishing itself, and I realized that these things of mine were taking on ever greater significance, both for the way they were built and for the material used (wood). I then abandoned in part the function of containing for a different function. I thus arrived at these latest images in which the idea of a different life, of a life within, (within life, within the things of life) is figured through structures that I realize starting from a precise design and recovering as a primary language all the common technique of carpentry. Now these images, these sculptures and this furniture are born from the depths of my experience as a song, of that hope and of that only alternative that lies before us more than of nostalgia for the past. Giuseppe Rivadossi The work, like any other of our objects, is sold accompanied by certificates of authenticity and lawful origin. We personally take care of and organize the packing and shipping of works of art with insurance all over the world.