"World Map" by Dario Goldaniga

DARIO GOLDANIGA

Dario Goldaniga was born in Milan, where he lives and works, in 1960.
He studied sculpture at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and later began his artistic experience under the guidance of Japanese artist Kengiro Azuma; at the same time, he worked as assistant to Gianni Colombo.

He subsequently embarked upon an independent artistic path that witnessed his works being part of important private and public Italian collections (Bracco Foundation, CAM Casoria Museum, Regione Lombardia, Rocco Guglielmo Foundation), in addition to those abroad (private collections in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Mumbai).

Since 1985 has been teaching Sculpture at the Sacro Cuore art lyceum in Milan.

He made his debut in 2005 with the exhibition "Di forma e di luce" at Fabbrica Eos Gallery in Milan, with a series of lost-wax bronze sculptures, having as their main motif the balance of figures, geometry and natural forms.
Since 2008 he has dedicated himself to a series of works using scraps of bronze castings; scraps with unpredictable and random shapes that create, assembling, the series of "World Maps". Consequently, another cycle of works connected to the latter comes to life, works on paper or on canvas that are created during the welding of bronze: the positive image is formed by the combustion process that releases on the canvas a plot of marks and burns, created by the incandescent particles that detach from the metal.

In 2014, the series of engravings depicting the imaginary "Star Maps", on a flat and spherical blackboard. These large portions of the blackboard, as well as the scraps of the bronze fusion used in previous works, are recycled materials that the artist subtracts from destruction, reinserting them into the circuit of his artistic production.