Giuseppe Rivadossi (Nave, 1935) MATER AMABILIS, 1999 bronze sculpture, 2/5

Giuseppe Rivadossi (Nave, 1935) MATER AMABILIS, 1999 bronze sculpture, 2/5 40.2x27.5x12 cm Giuseppe Rivadossi Happened to inherit his interest in art from his father Clemente, Rivadossi officially began his artistic career in the 1960s, approaching the study of furniture and sculpture in wood, plaster, terracotta and bronze. Multiple are therefore the materials used in his works, always inspired by man, his values and his "living." Giuseppe Rivadossi says: I saw wood working since I was a child. Until the 60s, where I live now, the relationship between man and man, man and nature was still based on an ancient ethic. Then industry arrived and with it began the plundering. The hope for a less harsh life soon turned into a bitter realization. The new technology, which was supposed to be just a more refined tool, turned out to be a tool of frustration and general disintegration. In this situation I feel more and more profoundly the need to express that sense of fundamental unity of existence, as a basic idea not to be lost or to be rediscovered at all costs, every day and in everything. Now these images, these sculptures and these pieces of furniture are born from the depths of my experience like a song, of that hope and of that only alternative that lies before us, more than of nostalgia for the past.