{{Short description|Italian painter (1932–2022)}} {{Infobox person | name = Sergio Dangelo | birth_date = 19 April 1932 | birth_place = Milan, Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|1|4|1932|4|19|df=y}} | death_place = Milan, Italy | occupation = Painter }} thumb|''Le Vespe'', 1954 '''Sergio Dangelo''' (19 April 1932 – 4 January 2022) was an Italian surrealistic painter and illustrator. He was the founder of the Arte nucleare movement, part of the nuclear art tendency, and was a co-founder of the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus.
== Life and career == Born in Milan, Dangelo made his studies between Italy, France and Switzerland, and lived for several years in Brussels, where he got in contact with surrealist and avant-garde circles, notably the COBRA group.<ref name="ArTribune">{{cite news |last1=Maida |first1=Desirée |title=Morto l'artista Sergio Dangelo |url=https://www.artribune.com/arti-visive/arte-contemporanea/2022/01/morto-artista-sergio-dangelo-pittura-nucleare-enrico-baj/ |access-date=15 January 2022 |work=ArTribune |date=5 January 2022 |language=it-IT}}</ref> Back in his hometown, in 1951 Dangelo founded with Enrico Baj the Arte nucleare movement, and held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria San Fedele in Milan.<ref name="bio">{{cite news |title=Milano, è morto Sergio Dangelo: addio "all'ultimo surrealista" |url=https://www.ilgiorno.it/milano/cronaca/sergio-dangelo-morto-1.7220236 |access-date=15 January 2022 |work=Il Giorno |date=6 January 2022 |language=it}}</ref> In 1953 he founded with Baj and Asger Jorn the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rüedi |first1=Katerina |title=Bauhaus Dream-house: Modernity and Globalization |date=2010 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-47581-5 |pages=93–4 |language=en}}</ref> and in 1954 he founded with them and organized in Albisola the Incontri Internazionali della Ceramica (International Meetings of Ceramics).<ref name="ArTribune" /><ref name="bio" /><ref name="manifesto">{{cite news |author1=Nicoletti, Luca Pietro |title=Addio a Sergio Dangelo, l'ultimo surrealista |url=https://ilmanifesto.it/addio-a-sergio-dangelo-lultimo-surrealista/ |access-date=15 January 2022 |work=Il manifesto |date=5 January 2022 |language=it-IT}}</ref>
Besides his "nuclear paintings", Dangelo is well known for the “Hand-made” (a name given to them by Marcel Duchamp in 1960), i.e. a series of collage paintings composed of fragments of various objects and materials.<ref name="ArTribune" /> His works were exposed in numerous art festivals, including the São Paulo Art Biennial, the Biennale de Paris, the Rome Quadriennale and six editions of the Venice Biennale.<ref name="ArTribune" />
Dangelo died in Milan on 4 January 2022, at the age of 89.<ref name="ArTribune" />
== Collections == Dangelo's work is included in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC,<ref name="NGA">{{cite web |title=Sergio Dangelo The International Avant-Garde, No.6, published 1962 |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.48895.html |publisher=National Gallery of Art |access-date=15 January 2022}}</ref> the Israel Museum,<ref name="IM">{{cite web |title=Sergio Dangelo: The Long Valley |url=https://www.imj.org.il/en/search/site/Sergio%20Dangelo |publisher=Israel Museum |access-date=15 January 2022}}</ref> and in the Museo MAGA in Gallarate, Italy.<ref name="AF">{{cite web |title=Sergio Dangelo |url=https://artfacts.net/artist/sergio-dangelo/12139 |publisher=ArtFacts.net |access-date=15 January 2022}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/sergio-dangelo/ Sergio Dangelo] at ''Treccani''
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