Silvio Vigliaturo

Silvio Vigliaturo (born 1949) is an Italian artist. He is a glassfusion maestro and his technique is appreciated internationally and considered unique in his genre by the most important Italian and foreign critics.

Life Vigliaturo was born in 1949 in Acri, province of Cosenza. When still a child he moved to Chieri, where presently he lives and works.

Artistic traits Vigliaturo's artistic journey is one of constant evolution. The never-ending research on colours and forms is symptomatic of a perpetual struggle in favour of the purity of colours and matter's expressive richness. A journey both gradual and tenacious, that led the artist to confront himself with a great variety of themes with different styles and instruments. Glass, steel, terra cotta and painting – which he never abandoned – are treated like matter, but represent as well an ideological choice, an important connotation of both his human and artistic growth. His glass works, which the artist creates in his bottega in Chieri, represent the conflict between the modernity of the image, the sign, the idea and the antiquity of the medium. Labeled as Homo Faber, his works are first thought, then interpreted and lived through a constant symbiotic relationship between mind and industriosity, consciousness and craftsmanship, creativity and visual poignancy. In 2006, while the city of Turin chose him as the only artistic testimonial for the Winter Olympics, in Acri was inaugurated the MACA – Civic Museum of Contemporary Art Silvio Vigliaturo. In 2008 the artist was named testimonial in the world of the UNICAL, University of Calabria.

List of permanent public collections that exhibit the artist's work Glass Museum Alterhof Herding, Ernsting, Germany Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain; Pinacoteca Civica Palazzo dei Musei, Varallo Sesia, Italy Regione Piemonte, Palazzo Lascaris, Turin, Italy Museo dell'Automobile, Turin, Italy Museo Arte Vetraia, Altare, Italy Fundacion Centro Nacional del Vidrio, La Granjia, Segovia, Spain Hsinchu Municipal Glass Museum, Hsinchu, Taiwan Museo ebraico dei Lumi, Casale Monferrato, Italy Province of Turin, Palazzo Cisterna, Turin, Italy MACA-Museo civico d'Arte Contemporanea Silvio Vigliaturo, Acri, Italy University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy Museum of erotic art, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

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