Sergio Storel
(b. Domegge di Cadore, Italy, 1926, d. Paris, France, 2017)
Sergio Storel was an Italian designer and sculptor belonging to the Post-War Ecole de Paris. He began his artistic career as a self-taught draftsman and painter. In the late 1950s he began forays into sculpture which would become his preferred medium. From 1961 to 1963, Storel was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris in the studio of the sculptor Henri-Georges Adam. It was during this period that he made his first torsos, a form on which he would meditate for the remainder of his career. Storel made over 140 torso sculptures in a variety of materials and with various degrees of abstraction.
His work has been the subject of solo shows at the Rodin Museum, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, Paris; the Museum Constant Permeke, Jabbeke, Belgium; and the Chartres Museum, Chartres, France. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium.
Storel moved to Paris in 1958 where he lived and worked until his death in 2017.
