Giuseppe Rivadossi (nave, 8 July 1935) Piccola Arca In Linden Wood, Year 1974

Giuseppe Rivadossi (Nave, 8 July 1935)

Piccola Arca in Linden wood

year 1974

10 x 32.5 x 22.5 cm

work conceived and performed by Maestro Giuseppe Rivadossi

Archetypal image of great beauty that reflects both the thought and one of the themes dearest to the Maestro.

The Ark, a biblical vessel built on the instructions of Noah, designed to save and preserve the human species and all living beings, is one of Giuseppe Rivadossi's favorite themes.

His "Arches" have welcoming shapes, they are guardians of life, they cradle it, they recall ancestral seeds ready to germinate, bursting the vitality they contain... or perhaps space ships to save humanity and take it to safer places.



Reference bibliography

Giorgio Cortenova, Giuseppe Rivadossi “The guardian of time”

Giuseppe Rivadossi, Electa Editrice 1980 Milan


Giuseppe Rivadossi
Having inherited his interest in art from his father Clemente, Rivadossi officially began his artistic career in the sixties, approaching the study of furniture and sculpture in wood, plaster, terracotta and bronze.
There are therefore many materials used in his creations, always inspired by man, by his values and by "living by him.




Giuseppe Rivadossi says:
I have seen woodworking since I was a child.

Until the 1960s, where I now live, the relationship between man and nature, man and nature, was still based on an ancient ethic.
Then industry arrived and with it the looting began.
The hope of a less harsh life soon turned into a bitter realization.
The new technology that was only supposed to be a more perfected tool turned out to be an instrument of frustration and general disintegration.
In this situation I feel more and more deeply the need to express that sense of underlying unity of existence, as a basic idea not to be lost or rediscovered at all costs every day and in everything.
Now these images, these sculptures and these pieces of furniture arise from the depths of my experience like a song, of that hope and of that only alternative that lies before us rather than of nostalgia for the past.