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Roberto Almagno

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b. 1954, Italy

Roberto Almagno sculpts exclusively with wood, which he collects in the forests outside his native city of Rome. Painstakingly straightening the wood over many hours, he then uses the ancient technique of moisture and heat to bend the wood into elegiac and timeless shapes in a constant quest for formal perfection and suspension in space. The fragility of the material and its transformative powers are evoked by Almagno's elongated and abstract forms which seem to be attempting to dissolve into nothingness. Steeped with a timeless purity, his work echoes a lifelong investigation into the idea of lightness and on the formal limits of a seemingly impossible precarious balance. Conceptualising sculpture as an on-going and unending flow, Almagno's pursuit of figures that are 'no longer bearing the weight of life' reveals inherent aspects of mysticism.

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Roberto Almagno (b.1954, Aquino, Italy) currently lives and works in Rome, Italy. Almagno has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums, including solo shows at the Carlo Bilotti Museum, Rome, the Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Matera at Palazzo Venezia, Rome and Pericle Fazzini Museum.

Almagno's sculptures are an integral part of prominent public and private collections in US,Germany, Austria, Turkey, England, Switzerland, Japan as well as Collection of Contemporary Art, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome; The Vatican Museums, Rome; BNL Collection of Contemporary Art, Rome; Museum of Contemporary and Modern Art, Michetti Foundation, Francavilla al Mare; Collezione Valadier, Rome; Luisa Longo, Bologna; Luigi de Simone,Rome; Enzo Spadon, Milan.

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Ancora by Roberto Almagno contemporary artwork sculpture
Roberto Almagno Ancora, 2008 Wood
100 x 180 x 30 cm
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Ombre by Roberto Almagno contemporary artwork sculpture
Roberto Almagno Ombre, 2001 Ash and soot
100 x 70 cm
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Laccio by Roberto Almagno contemporary artwork sculpture
Roberto Almagno Laccio, 2015 Wood
200 x 100 x 25 cm
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Ombre by Roberto Almagno contemporary artwork mixed media
Roberto Almagno Ombre, 2001 Ash and soot
100 x 70 cm
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Roberto Almagno by Roberto Almagno contemporary artwork mixed media
Roberto Almagno Roberto Almagno, 2001 Ash and soot
100 x 70 cm
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Velario by Roberto Almagno contemporary artwork sculpture
Roberto Almagno Velario, 2009–2010 Wood
340 x 200 x 130 cm
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Ombre by Roberto Almagno contemporary artwork mixed media
Roberto Almagno Ombre, 2004 Ash and soot
100 x 70 cm
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Ombre by Roberto Almagno contemporary artwork mixed media
Roberto Almagno Ombre, 2003 Ash and soot
100 x 70 cm
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