Paolo Camporese

Paolo Camporese was born in Padova on 14 February 1961. At the beginning his education was scientifically oriented: he got a degree in Agricultural Sciences and after obtaining his Ph.D. at Bologna, in 1992, he started an academic career as Adjunct Professor at Padova University. Since 2010 he has been teaching Natural Sciences at the Art School in Padova.
Paolo Camporese has not chosen Art. Art has chosen him.
The passion for sculpting and modelling chose Paolo while he was walking the farthest from it, on the way of Science, of experimental and rational Knowledge of Nature.
Yet, is not Art the Alter Ego of Nature, its dream-like fake, childish imaginary friend and tough step-sister?
From the connection "Earth-Creation-Spiritual Development" his love and passion for clay, the simplest and rawest but most original material, were born and nourished.
So Paolo Camporese's favourite material has become earthenware: he learned modelling in Padova at the atelier of a local sculptor. There he acquired and started mastering the artistic techniques owing to the work of enlargement of well-known artworks by S. Dalì and F. Lèger. Then, he learned how to glaze and finish earthenware with ingobbio technique at a ceramic workshop and...