Art is a mental process that finds its implementation through the manipulation and transformation of matter, researched, studied, experienced with patience and obvious pleasure. His hands accompany every creative process, guided by his experience as an artist - craftsman, starting from the choice of materials to their drafting in canvases according to the idea; the result of his impulses, emotions, memories and academic studies. is also the creator of the pigments he uses
Jacopo Scassellati (b. 1989, Sassari, Italy) is an Italian painter and sculptor whose work bridges classical mythology and contemporary existential inquiry. Rooted in the human form yet suspended in a realm of timeless symbols, his art meditates on memory, light, and transcendence.
Working between painting and glazed terracotta sculpture, Scassellati revives ancient materials and archetypal imagery to explore the fragile equilibrium between matter and spirit. His canvases, often rendered in restrained tones of black, white, and ochre, evoke the chiaroscuro of Caravaggio filtered through a metaphysical sensibility. Figures emerge from darkness like fragments of collective memory-at once mythic and profoundly human.
His sculptural practice, forged in the family's traditional ceramic workshop in Sardinia, translates this same dialogue into three-dimensional form. Through clay, fire, and glaze, he gives tangible body to the psychological landscapes that inhabit his paintings: Daphne's metamorphosis, Narcissus's reflection, Hypatia's martyrdom, and the ghosts of forgotten Rome.
Scassellati's first major exhibition, Frammenti dell'Essere, debuted in 2014 at Besharat Gallery Barbizon, marking the beginning of his collaboration with the gallery. The following year, the same body of work was presented in Atlanta under the title Fragments of Being, introducing his art to the American public.
Since then, his work has evolved toward a more contemplative materiality, uniting the austerity of classical form with the emotional immediacy of contemporary expression.
Scassellati lives and works in Sardinia, maintaining an active collaboration with Besharat Gallery in Barbizon and Atlanta. His works are held in private collections across Europe and the United States.