Dosso Giuseppe Dall'Osso

After completing education at "Liceo Artistico" he pursues his studies of sculpture under the guidance of Umberto Mastroianni at the Arts Academy in Bologna.
He then takes up teaching of creative art and history of art.
In 1968 comes his first personal event in Forni di Sopra (Udine) exhibiting landscapes and figures with typically essential and stylised traits.
He participates in the creation of works on show at the "Biennale d'arte" in Venice .
He designs and creates silver accessories for the luxury fashion sector.
He approaches abstract art exhibiting at Viareggio in 1972 and Parma in 1974.
In 1979 he is responsible for tv sets designed for the Rai show "Giochi sulla neve".
He collaborates for "La Scala" opera house in Milan in the realisation of theatrical sets, more precisely in the form of sculptured three-dimensional objects.
Then a long silence until 1994.

Exhibitions and events offering extracts of critical works accompanied by explanatory reproductions.

1994

“Sculptures” Cortile rocca sforzesca - Dozza (Bologna)

…the proud shapes of these sculptures present us with a world full of strength and importance, a world which the sweet and gentle wood are able to soften and melt to the point where the sculptures blend into the environemnt, whilst the precious lacework of shiny metal recalls both suggestive thoughts and moments, from medieval legends…(Piero Zuffi)

Some examples

1995

“Hybrid matter” Caffe' di Cuore - Imola (Bologna)

…Rugged, scarred wood, as if marked by the shadows of woodworm or struck by hands. Metal, sometimes polished to the extent of becoming a mirror: pure reflection of light…such a contradiction, however, dissolves as balance is reached and harmony abides between the archaic and the modern…(Paolo dal Monte)

Some examples

1997

“Matter is also poetry” Sala annunziata - Imola (Bologna)

…placing large-sized sculptures within an urban context was a difficult task which succeeded in terms of both style and refined elegance. the colours and shapes fit with the environment but do not succomb to it, because the works are formally original and stylistically unique…

Some examples

1998

“Scraps of matter ” Circolo degli artisti - Faenza (Ravenna)

…a creative style which abandons neither the visually concrete texture of existence, nor the transparence of metaphor.
Thus his woodwork and metal lacework turn into protean organisms, which form a small theatrical set where spaces dilate and dominate the scene, in the balance between fantasy and geometry, enabling multiple interpretations of these works…(Paolo dal Monte)

Some examples

“Little games ” Baricentro - Imola (Bologna)

…the game between inside and out continues…it would appear dosso wants to demonstrate that the world within matter corresponds to the external universe made up of threads and texture which lie at the heart of his current work by dint of strong artistic content and stylisation (Vinicio Dallara)

Some examples

2001

“My white walls ” Baricentro - Imola (Bologna)

…metal shapes, filled with tension and sublime essentiality. The collective memory transfixed on the white background of walls, there to give new life to ancestral messages which are already within us…(Vinicio Dallara)

Some examples

2002

Monument intitled “Resistanze, veichle of peace and democracy” Market area- Fontanelice (Bologna)

the story of the resistance against the fascist nazi regime and the consequent liberation thanks to the allied forces is told through a map whose lines evolve initially as hard and broken strokes, black and silver in colour, becoming gentler in their structure, but with overshadowed by the blood red of war, ending up in flowing lines and areas of joyful tones of red, those of a return to democracy, expressed in the spaces which rise toward the skies.

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“Remnant of light” Enoteca Regionale Emilia Romagna - Dozza (Bologna)

…as light and elegant as they appear, these shapes are profound in terms of their content…man and woman regain an archaic dimension made up of natural elements and visual, tactile sensations, those of taste and ideally those of sound too…(Vinicio Dallara)

Some examples

2003

“Ornamentation with portraits” Grande Mostra al Castello Sforzesco - Sale pinacoteca - Dozza (Bologna)

…the ornaments have taken over the leading role, the figure is but an accessory. bold and impudent in its expression, with no fear or shame in the use of aesthetic concepts which assault you with uncanny chromatic radiance. it seems as though the craftsman, in a dream turned real, discovers the art which has long been dormant within him, and which now ecapes his control and finally explodes…(Piero Zuffi)

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2005

“Sticks and cellulose, games and poetry” Galleria atrebates – Dozza (Bologna)

…the poetry of images, which is transfromed by intimacy through the portrayal of a new and almost naive game into the complete depiction not of the tree, but of the emotions that this provokes… through the delicate thread of an art which is measured and deep in terms of its content….(Pietro Zuffi)

Some examples

 

2006

“The observers observed ” Evento di arte contemporanea - ex ospedale psichiatrico dell'osservanza – Imola (Bologna)

installation “riflesso di sagoma coatta” (reflections of an enforced oultine)…vision and memory of the physical and psychological coercion that mentally ill individuals suffered… we all have some responsibility with regard to this violence, toward those who have been less fortunate than ouselves and who have not been in a position to express the human side of themselves…

Exhibition brochure

Some examples from his latest works during 2006

In his latest works, dosso defines himself the iniator of what he considers “poetic essentialism of the image”

His works are part of private collections and appear in public areas.