Duilio Forte (born 5 November 1967) is a Swedish-Italian artist and architect. He works primarily with wood and iron, creating large sculptures and unique exterior sculptural saunas.Petroni, Marco (9 May 2016) "Interni italiani (Italian Interior)":" Domus. Accessed 20 November 2022. He teaches at the Nuova Accademia Belle Arti di Milano and other institutions in Italy.
Early life Forte was born in Milan in 1967 and is half Italian, and half Swedish. His Italian father, Ettore Forte, was a surgeon and his Swedish mother was a housewife.Craighero, Ambra. (5 February 2010) "La mia casa, una palafitta sulla città ("My house, a stilt house over the city)". Corriere Della Sera ed. Milano (Italy). Accessed 20 November 2022.
He studied architecture at Polytechnic University of Milan, graduating in 1994. In 1994, he won the first prize in the San Carlo Borromeo at La Permanente of Milan with the Ekeberg Sauna, constructed in Sweden.
Career After college, Forte continued designing and building outdoor saunas, with each being a unique architectural design. On March 13, 1998, Forte founded AtelierFORTE, an architecture and sculpture research laboratory. AtelierFORTE specializes in unique outdoor saunas and other architectural installations. Its structures are designed according to Forte's ArkiZoic Manifesto, written in 2009 on the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. The manifesto defines his style which is characterized by a union of architecture and the geologic periods. It includes eight points: method, evolution, mathematics, representation, structure, symmetry, materials, and decoration.
Since 2003, Forte has organized and taught StugaProject, an annual art and architecture workshop near the town of Grythyttan in Sweden. He also teaches materials technologies at Nuova Accademia Belle Arti di Milano in Milan, Italy.
In 2008, Forte participated in the 11th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice, creating the installation Sleipnir Venexia. In 2010, he was again invited to participate in the International Architecture Exhibition of Venice and created the installation Sleipnir Convivalis.Abitare, Ailati. "Reflections From the Future ." Padiglione Italia, April 5, 2010 His Sleipnir series is inspired by the legend of Trojan horse and the Norse myth of Odin's eight-legged horse; it features sculptures that are up to tall. Forte also participated in the XXI Triennale International Exhibition of Milan in 2016 with his zoomorphic work URSUS.
Curator Beppe Finessi described Forte's process: "His whole life is a workshop. He is the veritable 'Craftsman' of the Italian architecture, both designer and builder. He doesn't need to talk to the workers or constantly see what they are doing. He does everything himself. His pencil is a saw, his AutoCAD is a welder. He makes everything he needs with his own hands, partly because it would be very difficult to explain to anyone else what's going on inside his complicated, visionary, fantastic head."
Forte became a member of the Swedish Association of Architects in 2005 and was nominated for the Yakov Chernikhov International Prize for young architects in 2010.
Personal life Forte lives in Milan a former textile factory that he purchased in 1998. The building is more than 100 years old. His brother, Lucio, is an artist who lives in an adjacent factory building.
Exhibitions
2007 – Hugin e Munin, exhibition, Milan, Italy 2008 – Sleipnir BASTU opera, exhibition, AtelierFORTE, Milan, Italy 2008 – Yggdrasill Steneby opera, exhibition, Dåls Långed, Sweden 2009 – Encelado, exhibition, Gran Salone dei Planisferi, Milan, Italy 2009 – Arkizoic OBSESSIO, exhibition, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy 2009 December – Sideropithecus Fortis, Affetti da cretinismo – Celebrating Cesare Lombroso exhibition, Milan, Italy 2010 April – Ars Combinatoria – exhibition, SpazioRT, Milan, Italy 2010 April – OSPITI INASPETTATI. Case di ieri, design di oggi, exhibition at Casa Boschi di Stefano, Milan, Italy 2010 May – WOOD 2010, exhibition at Virserum Art Museum 2010 July – Sleipnir Albus exhibition at Galleria Il Frantoio, Capalbio, Tuscany, Italy 2010 August – Sleipnir Convivalis Quintus, exhibition AILATI, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy 2010 September – Fafnir, exhibition IL TESORO DI BOMISA, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy 2013 – The Centuries Long Detail – Collective exhibit, Cheongju International Craft Biennale, South Korea 2013 – Semi-Equi – double solo exhibit, GAM Galleria d'arte moderna Genova Nervi, Genoa, Italy 2014 – Sleipnir XXXIII – temporary installation, Triennale di Milano exhibition, Milan, Italy 2016 – URSUS – temporary installation – XXI Triennale, Triennale di Milano exhibition, Milan, ItalyBryant, Roll. (22 April 2016) "Rooms – Novel Living Concepts show in Milan presents interior architecture by Italian designers", Dezeen. Accessed 20 November 2022. 2019 – ArkiZoic Project III 55249 – solo exhibition, Francesco Zanuso Gallery, Milan, Italy 2022 – ArkiZoic Project XI 66301 – solo exhibition, Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
Works
1994 – Ekeberg sauna, Sweden 2006 – Spiv, opera – StugaProject2006, Grythyttan, Sweden 2006 – Taenaris, opera – Milan, Italy 2007 – Spiken, opera – StugaProject2007, Grythyttan, Sweden 2008 – Sleipnir TAVRINORVM opera – arsenale Cavalli, Turin, Italy 2008 – Sleipnir VENEXIA, XI – Biennale di architettura, Venice, Italy 2008 – JulBock NABA, opera, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy 2008 – Sleipnir Spiken 2009 – Fenrir, opera – Milan, Italy 2009 February – Foundation of ArkiZoic, Milan, Italy 2009 – Pliosaurus, Milan, Italy 2009 – Sleipnir Nuncius – Vittoriale degli Italiani, Gardone Riviera, Italy 2009 September – Drakkar Yggdrasill – Grythyttan, Sweden 2010 March – Birnam Wood – Piazza Sempione, 616 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York, U.S. 2010 April – Sleipnir Trebuchet – Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy 2010 August – Sleipnir Ratatoskr – Grythyttan, Sweden 2011 January – Sleipnir Biologiska – Biologiska Museet (Biological Museum), Stockholm, Sweden 2011 February – La Foresta di Sleipnir – Rotonda della Besana, Milan, Italy 2011 April – Mammuthus Belli sculpture sauna 2011 September – Sleipnir Ex Silva – Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy 2011 November – Phoenix Turris, Turin, Italy 2011 – Asgard Turris Venti 829 Sculpture 2011 – Asgard Turris sculpture 2011 – Phoenix sculpture 2012 February – Sleipnir Lambrus – temporary installation, Ventura Lambrate, Milan, Italy 2012 March – Huginn&Muninn Sauna– Piacenza, Italy"AtelierFORTE: Huginn&Muninn", Domus, 19 March 2012. Accessed 20 November 2022. 2012 April – Bois de Boulon – Missoni, Milan, Italy 2012 April – Lampada Flux III + HugMun II – Misiad Milano si Autoproduce, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy 2012 May – Eva-sioni – Mostra, Palazzo Vernazza, Lecce, Apulia, Italy 2012 June – Sleipnir Thermarum – Terme del Bacucco, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy 2012 August – Sleipnir Automatum – Grythyttan, Sweden 2012 November – Huginn, Turin, Italy 2013 – Sleipnir Alea – temporary installation, ART.4, Fossano, Italy 2013 – Sleipnir Volta – temporary installation, Streetscape2, Como, Italy 2013 – Sleipnir Argus Junior – temporary installation, Trepponti di Comacchio, Commacchio, Italy 2013 – Sleipnir Bok – Grythyttan, Sweden 2013 – Sleipnir Argus – Casa Museo Remo Brindisi, Lido di Spina, Comacchio, Italy 2013 – Sleipnir Drusi – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy 2013 – Sleipnir Steam – Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy 2013 – Castra Exemplorum – temporary installation, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy 2014 – Sleipnir Meano – Borgo dei Creativi, Meaño, Italy 2014 – Sleipnir Tidonis – CArD, Pianello Val Tidone, Italy 2014 – Sleipnir Cine – temporary installation at Open, Lido di Venezia, Italy 2014 – Sleipnir Spiken II – Grythyttan, Sweden 2014 – Sleipnir Park – temporary installation, Giardini Indro Montanelli, Milan, Italy 2014 – Harpago Salis – temporary installation, Magazzini del Sale, Venice, Italy 2014 – Sleipnir 1861 – temporary installation, Piazza Carignano, Turin, Italy 2014 – Sleipnir Lúg – temporary installation, Lugano, Canton Ticino, Switzerland 2015 – Turris Pythagorica – Södra Hyttan, Hjulsjo, Hällefors, Sweden 2015 – Sleipnir Ciconiae – Stary Bubel, Poland 2017 – Sleipnir XLV Ciconiae II 8737 – north side of Chiaravalle Abbey, Milan, Italy 2017 – Turris Pithagorica II 14891 2017 – Yggdrasill Triennale 13217 2017 – Finis Extra Munch 11279 2018 – Birnam Wood IV 35677 – Palazzo Sebelloni, Milan, Italy 2018 – Sleipnir XLVIII Laterna 27697 – Grythyttan, Sweden 2018 – Sleipnir XLII Latemar 2797 – Respirart Sculpture Park, Trentino, Italy 2018 – ArkiZoic Project II 7297 – Spazio Giovannoni, Milan, Italy 2020 – Finis Extra painting 2021 – Dvlightship II 2022 – Yggdrasill II Arcimboldi
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