Tripi Angela

Angela Tripi

By modelling terracotta according to the ancient Sicilian tradition, the artist Angela Tripi creates wonderful nativity figurines. However, if you have a more precise look at her figurines, you will notice their Arabic influence. Probably it is exactly that, what gives her nativity cribs – which are true works of art – that certain something that introduce us to Jesus’ life in a very special way.

Angela Tripi’s nativity figurines are characterized by a particular attention for details, her characters are so beautiful that they look alive. Each year they fascinate both art experts and simple enthusiasts of beautiful things. For several decades now, Angela Tripi has been working at her workshop in Palermo, but is known nationwide and in particular here in South Tyrol. Thanks to the co-operation of collectors and nativity crib lovers she keeps on turning her sceneries into something special.

The artist Angela Tripi modeled the uniques nativities with Terrrakotta in the Sicilian tradition.
The characters of their representations are of the Arabic style
The Angela Tripi artworks have the liveliness and love for detail, fascinating to the art expert as to the spontaneous lover of beautiful things. Angela Tripi has been working for decades in her workshop in the center of Palermo and continues to develop and creating new nativity scenes for collectors.

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Sciascia Salvatore

Salvatore Sciascia

Salvatore Sciascia was born in 1956 in Puglia. He currently lives in Bolzano where he works as an artisan, illustrator and artist. He mainly devotes himself to painting on glass, while testing various techniques of painting and processing. Sciascia also works in the sector of graphic arts, in xylography, to be precise. Besides, he has had several books for children published. In 1995, Salvatore Sciascia participated in an important national meeting of illustrators in Sarmede, as well as in a traveling exhibit throughout Europe. He also took part in various craft exhibitions in Rome, New York and Johannesburg, organized by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

His works often represent a distorted reality like that one of dreams or of fairy tales. The elements withdraw from their original form to create a fantasy world. The extraordinary ability of Sciascia to create new universes, entirely alien to the everyday life, makes him an ideal artist for illustrating books for children. Salvatore Sciascia first uses tempera. He personally makes frames for his paintings, that are often black or coated with gold or copper plates. The painting and the frame, therefore, seem to be very compact and uniform.

Thanks to his participation in creation of the children’s book “Il piccolo gufo”, Salvatore Sciascia has contributed
into organization of various educational projects for children.
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Artworks:

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Grunt Armin

Grunt Armin

“Less is more”

My aim to let my work express itself

spontaneously by using just a few symbols.

Biography
1969 *
1984-91 Visit to the art and vocational school in
Val Gardena (I)
1992       working as a freelance artist

Exhibitions:
Ortisei (I), Bolzano (I), Milano (I), Lecce (I),
Daetz-Centrum Lichtenstein (D), Unika Galerie Ortisei (I)

Simposia and competitions:

Wooden sculptures Liffol le Grand (F)
Saint Pierre de Chartreuse (F)
Stone sculptures Caorle (I)
Snow sculptures Quebec (Can)
Snow sculptures Ischgl (A)
Snow sculptures Selva Val Gardena (I)
Ice sculptures Fairbanks Alaska (USA)
Ice sculptures Ottawa (CAN)
Ice sculptures Mosca (RUS)

Artworks:

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Sumi Yasuo

Yasuo Sumi

He graduated in economics from the Kansai University in 1947 and from the Risumeikan University in 1950. He became a teacher at the present Yodo Commercial High School in Osaka in 1949 and met Shozo Shimamoto in 1954, who was working as a teacher at the same school.

Shimamoto, fascinated by Sumi’s natural vocation in using the colors in a wild and dirty manner, involved Sumi in the Gutai group, and Sumi was officially part of the group in July 1955 attending the first Experimental Outdoor Exhibition of Modern Art in Ashiya.

His paintings, disharmonious and dense, were soon appreciated for all their instinctive and spontaneous originality thanks to the important reviews of Jiro Yoshihara. Yoshihara quoted Sumi among the members of the Group in all his public interventions, issued among the ’50s and 60s’ within the Gutai Journal. In the essential Manifesto of Gutai art, dated December 1956, (published in Geijutsu shincho magazine), Sumi was mentioned for this original way of painting by using a vibrator to spread frantically the colour on the canvas.

He moved in Itami City in 1959 where he lived the rest of his life, spent with his wife Yoko.

After joining Gutai, Sumi became a member of the International Art Club, the group represented by Taro Okamoto. Both the groups broke up later and the joined Artist Union in 1975. The group was then represented by Shozo Shimamoto and renamed as Art Unidentified. Sumi participated consecutively to all the exhibitions. In the 2000s his activities were mainly centered in Italy.

Collections in Japan

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Kyoto National Museum of Art, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (Yamamura Collection), Osaka National Museum of Art, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Miyagi Museum of Art, Fukuoka Art Museum, Shoto Museum of Art (Shibuya), Itami City Museum of Art, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Chiba City Museum of Art, Tanabe City Museum of Art, Urawa Art Museum, Nakamoto Seishi Art Museum (Sendai), Gendaikko Museum, Itami Town Hall, Itami Hospital, Itami city Hotel

Artworks:

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