Sergio Dangelo - Enchantment of the Hill

The devastation wrought by World War II left a profound mark on Western civilization, which in the visual arts also resulted in an inability to communicate. For some artists, this challenge resulted in a total rejection of any visual language, which led to the birth of Informal Art. The various Informal movements are certainly connected to American Abstract Expressionism, especially with regard to gestural elements, but they go further in their rejection of any figurative element, even geometric. Their research focuses instead on the materials from which they compose their works. Sergio Dangelo's Informal aesthetic harks back to so-called "nuclear painting," the desire of a group of artists to reconstruct, on the medium of their artwork, a nuclear landscape. Thus, drawing on the Spatialist poetics regarding the perception of energies in the atmosphere, nuclear artists like Sergio Dangelo focused their attention on the existence and movement of atomic particles.

In keeping with the general principles of Informal Art, Sergio Dangelo's pictorial language distances itself from both figurative and abstract art. According to his nuclearist conception, to capture the movement and existence of atomic particles on canvas, he must definitively detach himself from phenomenal reality, that is, from the reality perceived by the senses. For this reason, in developing his works, he draws on André Breton's automatic writing processes, so dear to the Surrealists. Thus, what Sergio Dangelo creates, in a completely concrete manner, is a world born of the unconscious, yet born of a profound fascination with the infinitely small and invisible that moves in our atmosphere: the atom. This fascination leads the artist to define various types of cold, rational nuclear landscapes, in which the presence of extensive chromatic zones with a compact painterly texture is a constant. In these environments, Dangelo identifies the movements of particles, which, depending on the case, can take on mechanical or biological characteristics.

Sergio Dangelo was born in Milan in 1932. He studied in his hometown, but his education took place primarily abroad. First in Switzerland and France, then in Brussels, where in 1948 he came into contact with the Surrealists and the Cobra group, which promoted the free expression of the unconscious through sign language. In 1951, Sergio Dangelo defined his aesthetic, exhibiting his "nuclear" paintings for the first time at the Galleria San Fedele in Milan. This marked the birth of the Nuclear Movement, which the artist would later found with Enrico Baj, and whose main outlet would be the magazine Il Gesto.

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