• Palagiano,Taranto, Italy

Born in 1994, Taranto. Graduated from the School of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bari. Skilled in the processing of marble and semi-precious stones, she participates and wins numerous International Stone Sculpture Symposia, among the most important we mention:

    < li>the International Symposium of sculpture on lava basalt "Gold of Etna" (CT) in 2016;
  • the Sculpture Symposium on White Marble of Vezza D'Oglio (BS) from the Borom quarries, in 2018;
  • The Antonio Berti International Sculpture Symposium on Pietra Serena at San Piero a Sieve (FI).

He participates in numerous group exhibitions of contemporary art and in important international sculpture prizes, such as the "Contempo" contemporary art festival, Conversano (BA) and the international award for contemporary monumental sculpture "Sculpture to live" of the Peano Foundation at Cuneo in Piedmont. International Exhibition of Contemporary Art “Living Unit 2 – Recessive Genes, Revisited”, curated by Lina Osama, Cairo, Egypt.

Also in 2018, he was in Brussels, where he continued his training at the studio of the contemporary artist Hans Op de Beeck, winner of the Pino Pascali Prize in 2017; is selected for "2° Piano art Residence" 2019 curated by Cristiano Pallara and Margherita Capodiferro, Z.N.S.project - Puglia.

His artistic research moves from sculpture to video - art, focusing both on the of living and habitat as presence and absence in the real world and in the body of the individual, increasingly led to alienation by the new social media; and on the study of the symbol in sculpture that manifests itself in a system of "meta-sculptures" that speak of the role and social status of the individual in the community and of the relationship between creation and destruction.

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