Gianfranco Meggiato - Artist Info

About Gianfranco Meggiato

  • Biography

    Gianfranco Meggiato was born in Venice in 1963, where he attended the Istituto Statale d’Arte, studying stone, bronze, wood and ceramic sculpture. At the invitation of the Municipality of Venice, he exhibited his works at a very young age (at 16 and 21) at the Galleria Comunale Bevilacqua La Masa in St Mark’s Square in Venice, where he showed sculptures in stone and semi-refractory material.

    The work of Meggiato looks to the masters of the 900: Brancusi for its research of the essentiality, Moore for internal-external relationship of it maternity and Calder for the openness of his work in space. The space enters his work and the vacuum becomes important when it is full. His works are inspired by biomorphic tissues, symbol o...

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