"There’s a precise moment in my life when I think I was born as an artist."

One afternoon, home alone with my brother, I found a blue wool yarn and started making a web of threads: I attached the thread to the window handle, then climbed on furniture to reach the highest shelf, then down to the door handle, and from the door handle to the table leg… I eventually filled the room with blue wool lines: my name is Giovanni, I am seven years old, and I want to become an artist.

"I’ve always found working with iron wire fascinating for what it allows me to experience: meditation, waiting, silence, correlation, weaving and above all the musical quality of a line that is modelled in a harmonious and seamless way."

I was born in Mestre (near Venice, Italy) in 1991. In 2017 I graduated in Sculpture from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, under the supervision of professor Giuseppe La Bruna. From 2014 to 2018 I tutored in Artistic Anatomy for professor Patrizia Lovato. During my studies, I took up figure drawing, which I then applied to sculpture and rendered three-dimensional by using iron wire. To me, iron wire – at once strong and delicate – puts drawing and sculpting together, representing bodies and objects whose structure interacts with the surrounding space.

I use my art to design and create spaces with a unique flavor. My artistic research led me to populate spaces not only with bodies but also with objects and furnishing accessories, such as chandeliers, mirrors, clocks, chairs, three-dimensional paintings and extremely personalized ornaments, requested by private and public clients, architects and interior designers. Since 2016, I’ve been organising workshops and classes in wire sculpting for Venetian associations and venues, for those who are interested in learning this technique.
I work in Venice.
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