Paolo Pisano

Paolo Pisano is an Italian sculptor living and working in the Tuscan nature of the hills in Pisa. The artist has a long career: he worked for the Cathedral of Pisa (Duomo di Pisa) and his pieces are present in the Museo dei Bozzetti di Pietrasanta, in important Tuscan monumental churches, and in private collections.
The artist wants to release the vital energy imprisoned in the material. Paolo applies non-ordinary techniques and creation processes, studying the works of the ancient masters of the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, and his artistic research focuses on the potentialities of the materials.
To create his sculptures, Paolo used marble, wood, bronze, silver, gold, plastic, cement, resin, glass, lead, hard stones, and many other materials. In the last years, the artist has explored the potentialities of clay: a material that hides a pulsating soul inside.
Currently, the artist creates terracotta sculptures: he molds them with the clay of various colors, and cooks them. Then he splinters the surfaces, scrapes them, colors them, and treats them with waxes and natural oils. Sometimes, with fire, ice, and boiling water, Paolo creates stains and breakings on the surfaces. Other times, the artist's sculptures are perfe...

Paolo Pisano, since he was a child, became passionate about alabaster, and started working as a self-taught. As a teenager, he attended the art school of wood carving having fun making miniature violins. Then he studied sculpture in Milan at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera with Maestro Marino Marini. After finishing his studies, he began his career as a sculptor and professor at the School of Art in Pisa. Today he works full time as a sculptor.

Among the exhibitions of the 2000s
• 2000 personal exhibition “Materia Quantitate Signata. Paolo Pisano” – Istituto di Cultura Giorgio Cini, Ferrara.
• 2000 personal exhibition "Scultura Sacra oggi - una mostra di Paolo Pisano per il Giubileo del 2000" – Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Pisa.
• 2000 personal exhibition “La forma dell'Idea - Sculture del maestro Paolo Pisano” – Circolo Ufficiali M.M. F. Mimbelli, Livorno.
• 2000 personal exhibition “Opere di Paolo Pisano per una mostra a Piombino” – Chiostro della Concattedrale di sant'Antimo, Piombino.
• 2000 personal exhibition “Vitalismo e Organicità” – Palazzo del Capitano, Uzzano.
• 2000 “Viaggio delle Forme e dei Colori” - Pinacoteca Civica di Palazzo Minucci-Solaini, Volterra.
• 2001 “Mostra di Arte sacra” - Basilica di S. Maria in Montesano, Piazza del Popolo, Roma.
• 2007 personal exhibition “Antichi riflessi nella scultura di Paolo Pisano” – Assessorato alla Cultura, Chiesa di S. Maria della Spina, Pisa.
• 2008 “Il recupero della memoria antica” – Assessorato alla Cultura e ai Beni Culturali, Chiostro della Concattedrale di Sant’Antimo, Piombino.
• 2010 personal exhibition “Paolo Pisano: la forma dell’idea e il suo atelier”, Palazzo Borghese, Firenze.
• 2011 persona...