Paintings

In his pictorial research, Jacopo Scassellati adopts a deeply artisanal approach, in constant dialogue with the classical European tradition. Each work is the result of careful preparation of the supports and a thorough study of historical techniques.

The artist personally creates backgrounds and primers, working on canvas or wood with layered preparations that guarantee depth and durability over time. He prefers to use natural pigments, often prepared by hand according to processes inspired by ancient painting techniques, which give the surfaces an intense chromatic and material quality.

The color is applied through successive glazes, calibrated overlays, and tonal transitions constructed with academic discipline. Drawing, a fundamental element of his method, guides the composition from the earliest stages, maintaining a balance between formal structure and expressive tension.

The pictorial surfaces reveal a constant exploration of light and shadow, physical presence and spiritual dimension. The colors are never random: each shade is chosen to evoke memory, silence, sacredness, or narrative drama.

The result is a painting that combines technical rigor and contemporary sensibility, in which the material becomes a vehicle for contemplation and storytelling.

Sculptures

Jacopo Scassellati is an Italian artist who places clay at the center of his sculptural research. His works draw on Sardinian tradition and classical training, intertwining cultural memory and academic rigor in a personal and recognizable language.

For Scassellati, art begins as a mental process, an inner vision that takes shape through the conscious transformation of matter. Each material is studied, observed, and experimented with patiently, in a continuous dialogue between technical knowledge and intuitive sensitivity.

Every stage of the work is guided directly by his hands: from the preparation of pigments and backgrounds to the final definition of the composition. Following the example of the masters of the past, he personally creates natural pigments, keeping an ancient tradition alive while remaining open to the search for new techniques and experiences.

His terracotta sculptures, marked by cracks, patinas, and hand-applied glazes, bear the signs of time and transformation. They seem to emerge from a dimension suspended between archaeology and vision, placed on a subtle threshold where the sacred and the corporeal meet.