Devakrishna Marco Giollo

Devakrishna Marco Giollo was born in Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland in 1953.In 1970 he studied at the Architect School STS of Trevano, but left after a year realizing that the intensive technical studies were not going to be his real calling.In 1971 in Lugano he joined the School of Art CSIA, where he got trained with some of the best contemporary artists and teachers such as Nag Arnoldi, Piergiorgio Piffaretti, Giuliano Togni, Daniele Cleis, Emilio Rissone, Gianni Realini and many others. In 1973 he won the second prize for sculpture at the Villa Saroli Exhibition (out of 150 entrants).In 1974 he won the Bariffi Prize and one of his works was accepted and produced in the size of 3 x 15 meters sculpture at one of the 2 restaurants of the Congress House of Lugano.Even though this would have been his entry ticket into the Swiss art scene, he left Switzerland, that year, sensing that art alone would never really be enough and that he had to travel.This he did over the next 3 years, journeying penniless overland through Greece, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal and India and then most of South-East Asia. On the way he lived with Afghani tribal warriors and Indian Sadhus, travelling from the Himalayas to the driest deserts ...

- 1969 he studied at the Architect School STS of Trevano.
- 1970 in Lugano he joined the School of Art CSIA, where he got trained with some of the best contemporary
artists and teachers.
- 1973 he won the second prize for sculpture at the Villa Saroli Exhibition (out of 150 entrants).
- 1974 he won the Bariffi Prize and one of his works was accepted and produced in the size of 3 x 15 meters
sculpture at one of the 2 restaurants of the Congress House of Lugano.

After that he travelled all over the world exhibiting a variety of new styles of work in many countries.
- 2000 he returned to Europe, first to Freiburg, Germany.
- 2003 back to Switzerland where he now lives and works in his two ateliers in Schoenenbuch and Magadino.
- 2003 and 2004 he won the second price of the Landfall Art Center recycling art competition in Alberoni, Lido di Venezia, Italy.
-2013 he won the Swiss Art Contest with Forum International