The Caging of Sculptures
by Daniele Accossato
Sculpture becomes Product:
Gagged, Locked, and Ready for Shipment
Something that will be dispatched, transported, sold
and then resold and re-transported.
Works of inestimable value are tied, gagged and locked up in narrow containers ready to be stored and then dispatched. The key to interpretation lies not so much in the sculptural subject (which is reduced to an archetype), as in its “setting”, the container. This italian sculptures are displayed in their transport containers, crates or wooden cages that are both confining and protective. The crates, the cages, the packaging, make the work into a commodity.
Box n.7 Amore rapito
60x45x80 cm. Material: jesmonite sculpture, wood, rope, pluriball, 2022.
Cage n° 8 – Testa di Apollo (gold version)
35x35x50 cm Jesmonite, wood, metal oxides, 2017
Wrapped n° 2
30x20x40 cm. Material: Jesmonite, wood, twine, metal oxydes, 2022.
Cage n° 7 – Testa di Apollo
35x35x50 cm. Materials: Jesmonite, wood, metal oxides, 2017.
Cage n° 1 – Ala Nike di Samotracia
85x30x150 cm. Materials: Jesmonite, wood, 2017.
Wrapped n° 3 – Venere
45x35x60 cm. Material: Jesmonite, 2022
Wrapped n° 5 – Amore Rapito
50x70x100 cm Material: Jesmonite, 2023
Box n.5 Leone Nemeo
75x140x65 cm. Materials: Jesmonite, wood, rope, pluriball, 2017.
Pallet n° 4
30x25x40 cm. Material: Jesmonite, wood, twine, metal oxydes, 2022
Box n° 2 – Bronzo di Riace
75x80x90 cm. Materials: Jesmonite, wood, rope, pluriball, metal oxides, 2016.
Cage n° 12
57x63x75 cm. Material: Jesmonite, wood, metal oxides, 2021
Box n° 6 – 2021
63x61x77 cm. Material: Jesmonite, wood, pluriball.
Pallet n° 1 – Amore rapito
60x45x80 cm. Material: Jesmonite, wood, rope, tape, oxides, 2022
Box n° 4 – David di Donatello
50x60x150 cm. Materials: Jesmonite, metal oxides, wood, 2017.
Box n° 1 – Amore rapito
60x45x80 cm. Materials: Jesmonite, wood, rope, pluriball, 2015.
Wrapped n° 4
32x21x20 cm. Materials: Jesmonite, twine, 2024.
Cage n°11 – Rabbit
45x40x65 cm. Materials: Jesmonite, silver chrome plating, wood, 2022.
Daniele Accossato, born in 1987 in Turin, Italy, has embraced sculpture as his main form of artistic expression since a young age. He graduated from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, where he studied under the guidance of Luciano Massari.
Over the years, Daniele Accossato sculpture has presented several art exhibitions, including: Imperfetto (In)finito (2024), Kyro Art Gallery, Pietrasanta – De‑Location (2021), Palazzo Tagliaferro, Andora – Project Room #7 (2018), Davide Paludetto Arte Contemporanea, Turin – Lost. L’Arte ritrovata (2017), Archaeological Museum of Salerno.
His work has also been featured in major italian sculptures exhibitions and international art fairs such as: INNESTI 23 (2023), Villa Clerici, Milan – MY FAB 4 (2022), The Koppel Project, London – Volta Art Fair (2020), New York – Art Miami (2021), Miami
He was awarded First Prize at the 3rd Biennale of Genoa (2019). Accossato currently lives and works in Turin.
