Salvatore De Pasquale - The Obsidian's Sculptor


	Salvatore De Pasquale


	LIFE AND WORKS - Salvatore De Pasquale was born on March 9th 1938 in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (Me). He took his degree at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Reggio Calabria. He studies under great Sicilian teachers, such as the painter Nino Leotti and the sculptor Giuseppe Mazzullo.



		"Bambina"

	pietra ossidiana di Lipari (h 30 cm)


	THE OBSIDIAN - Salvatore De Pasquale has been working obsidian using only a chisel for twenty-five years. He was the first and till now the only sculptor who has given artistic form to this mineral. There aren't, in fact, in the past traces of figurative arts realized with this mineral. Only a soft and precise touch, owed to a long working experience, could avoid destroying the glassy mass. The same touch is able to give obsidian various shapes, not only conchoid fractures, and to make it showing the typical reflection seen in cats' eyes.


	The exhibited his works for the first time in Messina at "Il Fondaco" Gallery in 1972. From then onwards he took part in many national and international art-exhibitions. He also personally exhibited in Bari, Formia, Bruxelles, Rome, Moderate, Florence, Viterbo, Vitorchiano, Legnano, Altomonte, Norcia, Eolie Islands, Taormina, Alcamo, Granites, etc. He received prizes and acknowledgementss.


		"Libertà"

	bronzo (h 20 cm)


		"Giovinezza"

	pietra arenaria (h 80 cm)


	AUTHORS WHO WROTE ON HIM... Marcello Passeri (Gazzetta del Sud), Francesco Cilona (Giornale di Sicilia), Francesco Perfetti (Vita), Felice Racchiusa (Giornale delle Arti), Giuseppe Marino (Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno), Petronius (Sette Giorni), Gino Spinelli de' Santelena (Pensiero ed Arte), Manlio Chieppa (Il Miliardo), Tino Saitta (Gazzetta del Sud), Lucio Barbera (Gazzetta del Sud), Pier Paolo Castellucci, Pina Asta (La Gazzetta Jonica), Giulio Minolfi, Luigi Tallarico, Franco Miele, Renato Civello (Secolo d'Italia), Leone, Giovanna Giordano and many others.

He was presented in his exhibitions by: Felice Racchiusa, Salvatore Di Giacomo, Salvatore Migliano, Melo Freni e A.M. Ardizzone for Radio Televisione Italiana, by Livia Azzariti in the TV programe "Uno Mattina" for RAI. His work can be found in public and personal art-collections: Bruxelles, Rome, Taormina, Eolie Islands, Museum Pagans of Legnano, Civic Museum of Altomonte (CS), Viterbo, Library and Civic Gallery of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (ME), Merì (ME): Statue of Padre Pio. He lives and works in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto.

You can contact the Artist by e-mail:sikelia@sikelia.com.


	“Atleta”

	legno di ulivo (h 200 cm)



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