Salvatore Tulipano

My plastic research is based on a consideration about the issue of Space through the realization of sculptures conceived as mean of plastic investigation of the Space.
My idea of Sculpture concerns sculptures realized in big sizes in order to almost remove their objectual connotation, underlining the connotation of sculptures as pure walkable space, both in relation and through a detached dialogue with the environment the context.
My sculptures work as a filter, as a “membrane” that separates themself from the context without isolating them as “objects” and they foster an inverse dialogue between them and the environment. Both the sculpture and the enviromment are enhanced by this relation.

This consideration finds a real application on formal level through the realization of sculptures realized in very big sizes: starting from sizes of three metres high for two or three metres large and long of a first phase of the projectual study, where they are already sculptures and not “models”, these sculptures are going to be realized five, ten, twenty, thirty times bigger as plastic spaces completely no-functional. The dimensional influence of each sculpture is a fundamental element for the effective understanding of the meaning of m...

2017
University Degree Level 2 Conception et direction de projets culturels - Sorbonne University Paris 3

2010
University Degree Level 2 in Visual and Performing Arts - Sculpture Course - Academy of Fine Arts of Naples

2008
University Degree Level 1 in Visual and Performing Arts - Sculpture Course - Academy of Fine Arts of Naples

2003
Artistic high school Architecture Section, “Caravaggio” Art School, Milan

Residences

2014
JCE Jeune Création Européenne, Montrouge, Parigi curated by Andrea Ponsini

Apulia Land Art Festival, Bosco di Cardigliano, Specchia, Lecce curated by Francesca Guerisoli



Select Solo Exhibitions

2015
Espace de la Sculpture. Montrouge, France curated by Andrea Ponsini

2013
Pavilion. San Pietro in Atrio, Como. Como Contemporary Contest curated by Paolo Bolpagni

2012
Omaggio a Deridda. Performance. Fondo Frascà, Buscate curated by Omar Mossali

Cantiere romano. Vari(e)azioni, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome curated by DART

Project Lab 2012. Sala Espace, Turin curated by Paolo Meneghetti

Plastic/Architectonic Block. Spazio Danseei, Olgiate Olona (VA) curated by Fermo Stucchi

2009
Untitled 2009. Installation. Neapolitan Box, Academy of Fine Arts of Naples curated by Ciriaco Campus


Select Group Exhibitions

2015
Profezie Presenti. Spazio Oberdan, Milan curated by Valentina Bottinelli, Omar Mossali

JCE Jeune Création Européenne Biennal. Casa Empordà, Figueres curated by Mario Pasqualotto

JCE Jeune Création Européenne Biennal. Villa Olmo, Como curated by Veronica Vittani

2014
Apulia Land Art Festival, Bosco di Cardigliano, Specchia, Lecce curated by Francesca Guerisoli

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