The artist, born in Genoa in 1963, has been
developing since 1987 a work in art by experimenting the new
languages linked to the « dispersed practice ». He was
presented in 1992 at the Documenta IX in Kassel with a piece of art
conceived with Marco Formento. For the occasion, he realized a
« supplemento » , in other words a catalogue, on the
invitation of the Italian commissioner. He was also presented in 1993
at the biennal of Venice. He also recorded in the 90s, still with
Marco Formento, eight « siparietti », little decors for
the Italian television whom will be broadcasted in the television
program « Blob ». Ivano Sossella now lives and works in
Germany.
At the end of the 80s, more precisely in 1987, a new
creativity grown in the Italian artistic world. Forgetting the
politicization as well as the absolutist ideological systems, this
new creativity spread trough individual methodologies that can be
verified from time to time according to operational stable and
instable methods.
Art can now spread towards several languages,
which contributes to question what is the job of the artist and
reaches its opposite side, more ironic and lyric. The two spheres, in
a tense atmosphere search the relationships and the links between
reality and fiction, between the body and the individual and social
soul.
For Ivano Sossela, as well as for Luca Vitone, Cesare Viel,
Tommaso Tozzi et Filippo Falaguasta whom in 1987 united in a
mouvement called Arte (Dissipazione), it is the absence of the
narrative web that is missing because their work emerge as a
« research beyond the object and art itself ».
Sossela
says « the Conceptual had a truth, not us ! Art is an insane
and distributive act, a constant correction of the proposed and
exhibited sens. It is mostly a suspect tentation ».
