Giuseppe Gabellone

Gabellone actually produces little and demolishes a whole lot The fact is that he dooms most of his sculptures to destruction, and this is undoubtedly because he only reckons them to be fully satisfactory and significant from the single, sterile and one-eyed viewpoint of photography.

The works of Giuseppe Gabellone are large installations and their creation is time-consuming…

Artworks

Giuseppe Gabellone’s art is always somewhere else. With a deft sleight of hand, his sculptures leap between dimensions, collapse into photo-graphic images or, like a rabbit from a hat, re-emerge into life. Gabellone’s ontologically uncertain work has a specific heritage traceable back to the Land art of the 1970s, which inadvertently flattened vast clumps of Utah desert by the simple action of depressing a shutter release. Robert Smithson’s massive Spiral Jetty (1970) on Utah’s Great Salt Lake is really a film; Michael Heizer’s spectacular hillocks appear today, squashed like daisies, between the pages of coffee-table books…

Works