Fernando Masone

Fernando Masone was born in 1952 in Pietrelcina near Benevento, Italy.
In his twenties, he approached the art of ceramic working at the Esedra art studio in Rome. Thereafter, he continued to deepen his knowledge and research in the art of ceramic and he also specialized in the art of print at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia where he used to be both collaborator and teacher.
In 1980, he established the Centro Polivalente Lysandra at the Ostia Lido about ceramics.
In the mid-eighties, the experience in the fields of ceramics and printmaking led him to conduct a very personal research on high-relief modelled paper art printing, using molds made out of terracotta, fiberglass and more. After overcoming many limits of the materials on a technical level, he began obtaining the first results with heavy-weight industrial papers, that were impossible to reach with common industrial paper, even of highest quality, as it tends to break when subjected to the solicitation in the making of reliefs of a few millimeters.
In 1990, after attending a paper making course at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia, he started a personal research on paper material managing to solve major difficulties caused by the use of indu...

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1988 Roma, Associazione Culturale Diagonale;
1988 Anticoli Corrado (Roma), Galleria L’Arca di Corrado;
1990 Pietrelcina (Benevento), Palazzo Silvestri;
1991 Venezia, Fenice Art Gallery;
1992 Parigi, Cité Internationalle de université de Paris (Collège Néderlandais);
1992 Venezia, Scoletta dei Calegheri;
1995 Pietrelcina (Benevento), Associazione Culturale Nonno Risorto;
1996 Grisignana (Istria, Croazia), Comunità degli Italiani;
1996 Trieste, Associazione culturale Gulliver;
1998 Abano Terme (Padova), Gran Caffè delle Terme;
1999 Rubano (Padova), La Barchessa;
2001 Roma, RistorArte;
2001 Umago (Istria, Croazia), Galleria Marin;
2002 Rosenhof (Germania), Kultur.raum;
2005 Toronto (Canada), Galleria OUT /AUT;
2007 Santiago (Cile), Consolato Italiano;
2009 Grignan (Francia), Galleria Incarnat;
2010 Capri (Napoli), Galleria La Conchiglia;
2010 Roma, Galleria La Conchiglia;
2011 Albenga (SV), Palazzo ODDO;
2011 Spessa (GO), Castello di Spessa;
2011 Parigi (Francia), Galleria BelArtVita;
2012 Portogruaro, Museo Archeologico Concordiese;
2013 Bologna, VID Laboratorio di Arte e Scienza;
2013 Casalmaggiore, Museo del Bijou;
2014 Marbella (Spagna), Galleria Il Fogolar.

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