BIO
He graduated in ’97 at the Academy of Fine Arts of Turin. Since 2013 he has worked in Alba, Pietrasanta, Paris and Beijing, maintaining his home studio in Alba where he lives.
1996
Exhibited his first works in “Compresenze, Seven Young Artists in Turin”, at the Artistic Piedmont Gallery
1997
“La luna e il falò” he wins the “Cesare Pavese Prize” in Santo stefano Belbo CN
1999
He was in London, where he perfected his artistic language in the Noriaki Maeda studio and technical assistant of the gallery at Agnew’ Gallery, Robert Sandelson Gallery ant Sephen Lacey Gallery.
2000
“Samuel Di Blasi - Piece one” “Summer Exhibition” at the Royal Academy of Art in London
2001
“Samuel Di Blasi - Forcible Entry” Third International Award of Sculpture at the Sala Bolaffi in Turin
2002
Internationale symposium fur modern kunst / d.fleiss & east-west artists
Acquisition of Art works “Forcible Entry II” for permanent exhibition in the Satu-Mare Art Museum
2008
“Waiting for” monumental site-specific work in Novello -Italy “Collisioni” first edition 2009
“Ascolta III” sensorial installation in Paratissima 5.2 Turin
2010
He founded “Fort&Arte” his design studio projects and solutions related to industrial design and monumental sculpture
2015
“Lo scalatore di Nuvole” personal exhibition at the National Mountain Museum of Turin - Art book (Lizea Arte Edizioni)
2016
He wins the” Ora” National Award of Art in Italy
2017
Design installation in the “Planet Gufram” - Mediateca Santa Teresa - Milan
2018
«Sognando Sogni» personal exhibition ADD-Art Gallery in Spoleto curated by Roberto Sottile
Art book (Add-Art Edition)
2019
He start to create the «Uomo Onda» at monumental opera commissioned by Arena-Italia for the Olympic Games in Tokyo. At the same time, the production company Roundabout of Sky Arte in Milan interested in its history and making the docu-film «Samuel Di Blasi -L’uomo onda»
2020
“For a better world” group exhibition in Galerie Géraldine Banier Paris
S A M U E L
D I B L A S I
Né en 1975 à Alba, Italie.
Vit et travaille entre Alba et Pietrasanta (Italie).
Samuel di Blasi graduated in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin where he started to work.
In 2000 he was in London, where he perfected his artistic language in the studio of Noriaki Maeda. His monumental works describe the link between man and nature. The artist idealizes the two universes by freezing them: this still image creates metaphysical worlds linked to dreams. «I like to represent water using fire, because they are two opposite elements, opposite, but both alive. I use photography to stop the suggestion that I see and the beauty that will lead me to the realization of the work. I grew up through photography and the super-eight, made first by my grand-father and then by my father».
Samuel Di Blasi uses the short film technique as a representation of the non-expressible in words and considers himself a visual sculptor, a creator of worlds that can be crossed. “We often observe shapes that don’t want to be description of themselves but simply be something that looks like something else,
like the idea of seeing a cloud and wanting to climb it”.
In 2015 he realized at the National Mountain Museum of Turin the personal exhibition «Lo scalatore di Nuvole» (The Climber of Clouds), whose art book is published by Riccardo Cordero (Lizea Arte Edizioni).
In 2018 he realized at ADD-Art Gallery in Spoleto the personal exhibition «Sognando Sogni», curated by Roberto Sottile, and published his last book (ADD Edizioni).
In 2020 he created the work «Uomo Onda» commissioned by Arena Italia for the Olympic Games in Tokyo. At the same time, the production company Roundabout in Milan, interested in its history, is making the docu-film «L’uomo onda».