METAL SCULPTURES BY DANIELE DELL’ ANGELO CUSTODE

GX GALLERY ,  28 Aug 2014 – 19 Sep 2014,

43 Denmark Hill, LONDON

critical text by Paolo Marzano

Daniele Dell’Angelo Custode’s personal exhibition in London is an important milestone for the artist’s work in research and experimentation. His contemporary art metallic installations in historical buildings and in urban environments increase his conceptualisation of his interventions in ‘time places’, and structure an important relationship with the landscape and space.

Daniele’s art continues to express the complex and sophisticated skill of dosing the thickness of materials using its most excellent communication medium: metal.

The choice is all in the ‘texture’ given to that natural, malleable, moldable, transformable and highly communicative material.

Daniel continues his quest by working with different densities of layers, refining shapes seemingly already perfect, disturbing the balance and reaching interesting solutions which of late have increasingly included those ‘objects used by the world’ as the artist himself says.  In fact, his art involves objects which man has rejected, isolated, abandoned; art therefore reveals their continuing existence, making them live again and inserting them in ‘other’ places, shared by different and alternative time frames.

By investing an increasing amount of energy in his art and thus his exhibition activities, he has created much interest in this type of work in the European countries where he has shown his creations; he has shown the artistic formative path that can be created through exposure to different languages; art, winding its way through different environments and landscapes, is constantly evolving.

It is as if the work absorbs the space, and could therefore, through mutations, contain the whole world.

The approach to the metal and its many variations continues to be the natural place for Daniele to write, and even re-write, his ideas.  “Unconventional Attractions” then, as the expansions, blows, distortions, contorsions, oxidisations, glossy reflections, and then the rusty, burned folds, prove the existence of that always sought and awaited dimension, where the consumption of matter and the transformation of space restore them to time travel… the artist’s time.

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Category: Cultura