Giuseppe Spagnulo — Abstract Sculpture
2 min readApr 6, 2019
Giuseppe Spagnulo (28 December 1936–15 June 2016) was an Italian sculptor.
Spagnulo was born in Grottaglie, Taranto. At young age he learned to work on the lathe in his father’s ceramic workshop. Between 1952 and 1958 he studied at the Faenza Art Institute for Ceramics and then he moved to Milan, where he enrolled at the Brera Academy and worked as an assistant for Arnaldo Pomodoro and Lucio Fontana.In the late 1960s, Spagnulo started working on his first sculptures, including the corten steel installation “Black Panther” (1968–1969), which was exhibited at the 1972 Venice Biennale.
