Vittorio Amadio Biography
VITTORIO AMADIO (1934, Castel di Lama) Sculptor, painter, engraver and ceramist. At a very young age he emigrated to Venezuela where he found work in the oil industry and it was there that he faced his first creative experiences. In 1975 he opened the atelier in Palazzo Malaspina where he founded the "La Sfinge Malaspina" Association to promote cultural activities, which is still active today. For several years he stayed away from exhibition activity, preferring to deepen his knowledge of engraving and chalcographic techniques and, with repeated forays into the field of medals, he intensified his pictorial and sculptural experimentation, producing a vast quantity of works. He has a profound knowledge of materials (iron, aluminium, steel, wood, river and mountain stones, clay, ceramics and also gold, silver and precious stones), which he transforms into works of art in which creativity and originality represent the starting points of his being a man and an artist. In 1953, he left war-stricken Italy to go to Venezuela, where he was positively struck by the red and yellow cars circulating in that country and by the female universe. Without any work experience, but animated by an innate spirit of adventure, Amadio soon learned a series of trades that put him in a position to live and eat regularly.
