Untitled. 2009
Digital print. 52 x 35 cm

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Untitled. 2009
Digital print. 52 x 35 cm

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Untitled. 2009
Digital print. 52 x 35 cm

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Untitled. 2009
Digital print. 52 x 35 cm

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GABELLONE’s works are sculptures, even though a good number of them are only made visible by way of imagery. They are made for a specific place and viewpoint, and are then photographed and destroyed. His photographs may offer few clues about the places where they are taken, but they likewise leave few hints that would enable us to establish any date or specific time.

These untitled digital prints perched on architectural plinths fastened to horizontal grates, which he laboriously transported and photographed on roofs and in vacant lots of warehouses and railroads on the outskirts of Paris pose the question of site, monument, architecture, landscape and memories in one fell swoop, while flattening everything out into two dimensions.

GIUSEPPE GABELLONE is a sculptor. Or we could say that he is an artist who is developing an inquiry into the sculptural elements of architecture, photography, and memory, so that the sculpture is not self-contained but refers to how the mind processes memories. – by FRANCESCO BONAMI

GIUSEPPE GABELLONE is an Italian artist living between Milano and Paris.