Books
“Abandoned rail yards inspired the series of Tracks. But it is Sassone’s own wandering, his feeling of being a vagabond within his own skin, elevating the paintings to a status of an epic.”
Marco Sassone: His Boots and Other Works
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition, Marco Sassone: His Boots and Other Works, from June 9 – September 5, 2016 at Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto.
Introduction by Deirdre Kelly. Published June 2016. 36 pages. Size: 8 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches. 10 full color illustrations. Printed in Canada.
ISBN: 978-0-935194-12-8
“…all done with an agitated brush, [Sassone’s paintings] elicit a fervent emotion, comparable to the sensations evoked by the canvases of Kokoschka himself.”
IL MAESTRO E L’ALLIEVO: Oskar Kokoschka, Silvio Loffredo, Marco Sassone
Master & Pupil
The exhibition Master & Pupil explores the student-teacher relationship between Marco Sassone and Silvio Loffredo, his professor of art at the Accademia in Florence, and between Loffredo and his teacher, the Austrian expressionist Oskar Kokoschka.
Exhibition catalogue, Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco. Foreword by museum curator Valentina Fogher. Text by Peter Selz. English and Italian texts. Published April 2001. 64 pages. Size: 11 ½ x 10 ¼ inches. 39 illustrations, 29 full color plates. Printed in Italy.
“The spontaneity of the dance is assured, after a slow and careful evolution of subsurfaces, by an intense, rapid application of the thick layers and marks that constitute the final surface.”
Paintings from the Series Costiera Amalfitana
Exhibition Catalog, Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco. Introduction “Back Home” by Peter Clothier. Published November 1999. 24 pages. Size: 9 ½ x 9 ½ inches.10 full color illustrations. Printed in USA ISBN: 978-0-935194-10-4
“The process of increasingly mature investigation into the never satisfied quest for an aesthetic point of view contributed to awaken in Sassone the memory of his Florentine encounters and of the new approaches he learned in the mediated teaching of Kokoschka.”
Galleria D’Arte Mentana
The works illustrated in this catalogue include paintings, watercolors and drawings dating from 1987 to 1997. Author Tommaso Paloscia traces the roots of Marco Sassone from his early days in Florence to present, where the influence of his teacher Silvio Loffredo is still playing an important role in his work.
Exhibition Catalogue, Galleria D’ Arte Mentana, Florence, Italy.
Introduction by Tommaso Paloscia. Italian and English texts. Published April 1997. 76 pages. Size 10 x 9 inches. 38 illustrations, 30 full color plates. Printed in Italy.
ISBN: 978-0-935194-09-8
“In his desolate landscapes… man is most frequently seen alone, reduced to the struggle for survival in a universe that seems at once to swallow and reject him.”
Home on the Streets
The exhibition “Home on the Streets”, held at the Museo ItaloAmericano from March 30 to June 10, 1994, received considerable critical and public attention. Over a period of two years, Sassone dressed as a homeless person and spent time on the streets, listening to the stories, learning how many different routes there can be to the life of the dispossessed.
Exhibition Catalogue, Museo Italo-Americano, San Francisco.
Foreword by Tom Bradley and senior curator Robert Whyte. Text by Peter Clothier. English and Italian texts. Published March 1994. 64 pages. Size: 11 x 10 inches. 35 illustrations, 12 in full color. Printed in USA.
ISBN: 978-0-935194-08-1
“The instinct for knowing when to stop allows him to build his surfaces in a painterly way, without overworking them, and we are rewarded by a richness and resonant color not often found in this medium.”
Watercolors
Exhibition Catalogue, Pasquale Iannetti Art Gallery, San Francisco.
Introduction “Body of Water” by Mariah Marvin. Published March 1993. 48 pages. Size: 11 x 8 inches. 18 full color illustrations. Printed in USA.
ISBN: 978-0-935194-07-4
“ This is powerful and difficult stuff. Yet there’s cause for celebration here, both for the artist and for those who care about his work.”
Italian Cultural Institute
Exhibition Catalogue, Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco. Introduction “Close to the Bone” by Peter Clothier. Published March 1991. 24 pages. Size: 11 x 8 inches. 7 full color illustrations. Printed in USA.
ISBN: 978-0-935194-06-7
“Many of the paintings show how the most ordinary subjects - bicycles, houseboats and dilapidated automobiles - can serve as Sassone’s excuse to render the world he sees in color and light.”
Marco Sassone New Paintings
The works illustrated in this catalogue are from the Houseboat Series painted in Sausalito, California. Exhibition Catalogue, Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, California.
Introduction by Thomas Gladysz. Published March 1989. 24 pages. Size: 8 x 11 inches. 7 full color illustrations. Printed in USA.
ISBN: 0-935194-05-3
“Sassone is a gestural painter, an artist who becomes totally absorbed in the act of painting. The result is work powerfully expressive, evocative, and sometimes haunting in its beauty.”
Sassone Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery / Bernheim-Jeune
This catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition of Marco Sassone’s work at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the historic Bernheim-Jeune gallery, Paris in 1988.
Text by Janet B. Dominik. French, English and Italian text. Published May 1988. 108 pages. Size: 10 x 10 inches. 27 full color illustrations. Printed in Italy.
ISBN: 978-0-935194-03-6 (hard cover)
ISBN: 978-0-935194-04-3 (paper back)
“Sassone’s meeting with Guy Maccoy in 1973 carried him into the heart of the graphic world…Through those serigraphs Sassone found another venue for the artistic expression of light and color.”
Catalogue Raisonne (1975- 1984)
Art historian, Phyllis Settecase Barton, perceptively blends an analysis of the silkscreens of Marco Sassone with a crisp historical review that chronicles the emergence and growth of serigraphy as a vital art form.
Text by Phyllis S. Barton.
Published October 1984. 92 pages. Size 12 x 9 inches. 28 color illustrations. Printed in Italy.
ISBN: 978-0-935194-01-2
“This is a sumptuous and superbly produced book…most of the 129 color reproductions have entire spreads to themselves; and a rich and varied photographic record of the artist’s career and background, together with a perceptive and well-considered critical biography by a distinguished writer on American art, give it dimensions that add much to its impact.”
“The publisher has given the artist a generous and splendid showcase for his work…”
Sassone (Monograph)
“If Sassone’s Italian paintings seem most often to have the quality of worn and faded renaissance brocade, his California subjects can be compared to cut and polished gems shot through with sunlight…” So writes art historian Donelson Hoopes in this volume titled Sassone. Well over a hundred of Sassone’s oil paintings and watercolors are featured in this book.
Introduction by Dean Charles Speroni, U.C.L.A. Text by Donelson F. Hoopes.
Published, spring 1980. 304 pages. Size: 12 x 11 inches. 190 Illustrations, 130 in full color. Hard cover bound in linen and printed in Italy.
ISBN: 978-0-935194-00-5