Silvio vigliaturo biography sample

Italian painter

Silvio Vigliaturo (born 1949 in Acri, Cosenza) is an Italian artist. When still a child he moved to Chieri (Turin), where presently he lives and works.

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.^[1]

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.

Short biography sample

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^[2] – 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