1500-degree molten steel installation, inspired by Caravaggio, to drip from the ceiling of Mona

A 2022 Venice Biennale commission by Italian artist Arcangelo Sassolino will be recreated for Mona in time for Dark Mofo 2025.
An installation shot of an artwork involving molten steel dripping from the ceiling from multiple outlets into shallow baths of water. To be shown at Mona for Dark Mofo 2025.

Italian sculptor Arcangelo Sassolino’s Diplomazija astuta, which was originally created for the Malta Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, will have a new life as in the end, the beginning for its Australian debut at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), Hobart.

The exhibition marks Sassolino’s first solo show in Australia and brings together signature works that manipulate the property of his chosen material in mind-bending ways, while pitching against the laws of physics.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_