The originality of de Angelis' sculpture consists precisely i n combining different historical roots, different sensitivities, different aims of formal research, without any contradiction. A Nordic man and a Mediterranean man, de Angelis looks at the past and the future at the same time, bringing together different histories and cultures with the aim of identifying a minimum common denominator for all of them. An experience that places de Angelis at the centre of the world, transmuting art into life and vice versa, like the change in eternal becoming he represents in his sculptures