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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 industrial paper. Since the early nineties, he has a laboratory set up for the handmade production of paper, he organizes workshops and seminars in Italy and abroad, he has specialized himself in molded paper print and collaborates with the best known contemporary artists. In 1999, he launched CARTAVENEZIA, a gallery and art shop where the invited artists exhibit their work exclusively on handmade paper.