Enrico Zanetto

I was born in 1963, in Italy, in Padua to be precise, the city where I still live.
Even as a boy, alongside the more rational side of my personality, to which I owe my studies in economics, a special artistic sensibility rang out loud and clear inside of me. A creative drive that, from an early age, found expression in my father’s atelier of applied arts. Since 1985, I have in fact designed tableware and furnishing accessories where noble metals take on the most unusual, original shapes.
Thanks to courses in design, art, painting and sculpture, over the years I have honed my technical skills and for about a decade now I have experimented with painting. Recently I have also started producing sculptures in metal.
I proudly admit to having a multi-faceted personality, constantly in pursuit of new paths, convinced they will lead me to new places and I believe that art is a journey of initiation, a road of transmutation and spiritual growth.

1988 Padua Veneto Handicraft exhibition Plaque from Regione Veneto
1995 Frankfurt FORM Award for Galleria collection
1999 Frankfurt FORM Award for Africa collection
1999 Italy ARGO' award for silverware To the Africa collection: "a poetic, involving and emotional collection"
1999 Italy Special ARGO' award for silverware Assigned by sales outlets recommended by "Argento" – to the Africa collection
2001 Padua Veneto Handicraft exhibition First Prize – ‘Intuizioni’ and ‘Saturno’ bowls
2014 - Biennale internazionale d'arte di Asolo
2015 - ‘Premio Arte 2015’: work awarded, between the 40 finalists and
Exhibited at the Permanente Building in Milano