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Gilberto Zorio

Gilberto Zorio (Born 1944) is active/lives in Italy.  Gilberto Zorio is known for Arte povera sculpture, language and energy theme conceptual.

Gilberto Zorio was born September 21, 1944, in Andomo Micca, Italy.  He entered Turin's Accademia di Belle Arti in 1963 to study painting. However, he soon moved on to sculpture and had his first solo show of three-dimensional works in 1967 at the Galleria Sperone, Turin. Associated with the revolutionary Arte Povera [more] movement, Zorio exhibited in a number of the defining group shows of Arte Povera in 1967 and 1968. He was included in a group exhibition, Nine Young Artists: Theodoron Awards, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1969. Around this time, Zorio embarked upon a series dealing with language, Per purificare le parole, a theme he would investigate through the early 1980s. In 1970, Zorio graduated from the Accademia and, in 1971, he began teaching at the Liceo Artistico, Turin.

Zorio's work emphasizes process and alchemy, exploring transformative natural phenomena like evaporation or oxidation and the effects wrought upon materials by these chemica   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2708 characters.]  Artist bio

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