Bio
Arcangelo Ambrosi was born in 1988 and lives and works in Bitonto, Puglia.
His background is scientific, with a degree in Computer Science and Software Production Technologies.
Raised in a family with a creative nature and professions, he developed a passion for wood, creating objects of a wide variety of types and aesthetics over the years: musical instruments, props, design objects, and sculptures.
In 2015 he starts his independent activity as wood artist.
His recent fields of research include the human figure and the artistic dialogue with wood.
Interferenze Project
After years of making pipes and sculptures based on pipes, of creating bizarre animals and playful experiments, I felt the need for a clean break—a sharp detour to return to understanding wood as a material to be investigated. To enter its depths and venture through the grooves of its grain.
The Interferenze project was born from a personal need for exploration: to experiment with the techniques I’ve acquired over the years in a different way, in order to interact with wood from a new perspective—to detect and reveal the hidden languages within the material.
The “interferenze” are overlaps between the graphic snapshot one can find inside a tree—made up of knots, rings, and grains—and an artificial language composed of simple, precise, unnatural lines. The goal is to make them interfere or converse, depending on the case and the point of view.
To me, the results resemble undefined maps, perhaps useful only for seeking some kind of resonance between man and wood.
The Pipe
The pipe, “eminent expression of the kingdom of lifeless things”, as Dino Buzzati wrote, has been the protagonist of my research work for years.
My purpose was to transform its identity through sculpture, with bizarre and surreal experiments.
After ten years of sculptural pipemaking, I felt the need to untie this object to delve deeper into themes such as the human figure and wood as a field of exploration.
Publications
I migliori marchi di pipe italiani
