June 2025 – April 2026
Bedizzole (BS) – Italy, Scuderia La Caccia
Where art meets horse riding “ARTopenAIR” is born from the collaboration between Marco Bertoli Art Advisor, M45 MILANO and Scuderia La Caccia with the idea of creating a connection between contemporary art and horse riding. The initiative proposes a biennial program of exhibitions aimed at young emerging artists and established protagonists of the national and international art scene. The sculptures, inserted in an “OPEN AIR” path, dialogue with the surrounding landscape, creating a link between art, nature and horse riding. This fusion arises from the desire to enrich the visitor experience, developing a stimulating and evocative environment capable of encouraging, through the installed work in an articulated path between the spaces of the Scuderia La Caccia estate, five powerful sculptures by Paolo Grassino invite guests on a journey of reflection, emotion and sensorial involvement.
Marco Bertoli presents Paolo Grassino, one of the most incisive contemporary Italian sculptors, known for his social themes and profound reflection on contemporaneity and for the use of raw materials and essential forms. His work is located at the crossroads between nature and artifice, control and chaos, man and machine.
Grassino uses rubber, wax, cement and industrial waste to create works that speak silently, but profoundly, of the human condition. His works have been exhibited in national and international museums, from Miami to St. Petersburg, from Singapore to Beijing. He has also participated in several biennials and his creations are present in the most important collections, not only European and American, but also Asian.
Chi è Paolo Grassino
Born in 1967 in Turin, he studied at the Accademia Albertina, where he now teaches. His works, with a strong visual and emotional impact, propose a reflection on today’s society and on the state of precariousness and mutation in which it finds itself. The artist uses diverse techniques and materials to create imposing structures, in which the recovery of manual skills is central. He began exhibiting at a very young age and, with his first solo exhibition at the GAM in Turin in 2000, he established himself at national and international galleries and institutions. In 2005, he created the large installation “Armilla” on the facade of the Palazzo Bricherasio Foundation in Turin and, in 2008, he participated in the XV Quadriennale d’Arte in Rome. In the same year, Lóránd Hegyi invited him for a solo exhibition in France, at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole. In 2009, he took part in the Essential Experience exhibition at the RISO museum in Palermo, while in 2010, he held an anthological exhibition at the Castello di Rivalta (TO). In 2011, he was present at the MACRO in Rome with “Madre”: an imposing and sprawling tangle of ramifications and roots covered in red wax. In the same year, he took part in the Fourth Moscow Biennial and exhibited in international public museums such as the Frost Art Museum in Miami and the Loft Project ETAGI in St. Petersburg. In 2012, he took part in Beaufort 04-Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea in Ostend. In 2013, however, he held a solo exhibition in the spaces of the Luigi Pecci Contemporary Art Centre in Milan, during which the catalogue published by Skira of his most significant works from 1992 to 2012 was presented. Also in 2013, the IIC in Madrid dedicated a solo exhibition to him. Among the most prestigious exhibitions in 2017 are the two solo exhibitions at Casa Fiat de Cultura in Belo Horizonte in Brazil and at The Parkview Museum in Beijing and Singapore, while the solo exhibition “Magazzinoscuro” at the MAC in Lissone is from 2015. Together with Gisella Chaudry, in 2018, he founded NewGAP, a working group that deals with the promotion and dissemination of young contemporary Sicilian artistic research. In 2019, his anthological exhibition took place at Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana in Turin, in which a selection of his works retrace thirty years of artistic production, along a never banal path of investigation into the contradictions of our times and the controversial triangulation between man, history and nature. In 2021, he took part in the traveling exhibition “The Silk Road. Contemporary art and artists from Italy” organized by the Farnesina with stops in the museums of Kiev, Ankara, Tbilisi, Tashkent, Beijing, Xi’an. In 2023, he was invited by the city of Pinerolo to the Third Diffused Biennial and created a personal exhibition entitled “Incursioni” curated by Franco Fanelli in the historic Cavallerizza Caprilli and in the most significant places of the city.
Senza nome (2014)
Fusione in alluminio, 180 x 56 x 40 cm
Collocata all’aperto, questa forma silenziosa vibra di profonda energia, richiamando le forze invisibili che animano la vita sotto la superficie.
Travasi (2011)
Fusione in alluminio, 210 x 95 x 85 cm – 165 x 125 x 85 cm
Travasi si ispira al flusso travolgente di informazioni digitali, che ci sommergono.
Nella tranquillità della natura, l’opera ritrova equilibrio, suggerendoci di disconnetterci per riconnetterci, fuori dalla rete.
Cardiaco (2006)
Fusione in alluminio patinato, 157 x 220 x 145 cm
Grassino ci invita a riflettere su come il progresso trasformi la nostra essenza, ricordandoci che un cuore nasce per battere e non per essere battuto.
Immersa nella natura, la scultura pulsa di nuovo significato, richiamando il nostro posto in un mondo vivo e vibrante.
T (2019)
Fusione in alluminio e trave in ferro, 178 x 45 x 600 cm
Una potente meditazione sul progresso dell’uomo. Figure umane interagiscono con una trave metallica, incarnando la tensione tra uomo e macchina.
Fiato (2014)
Fusione in alluminio patinato, 240 x 180 x 92 cm
Due cervi a grandezza naturale ci osservano con orbite vuote, testimoni silenziosi della trasformazione del mondo contemporaneo.
