Giorgio Vigna

Giorgio Vigna (b.1955, Italy Giorgio Vigna was born in Verona in 1955 and trained artistically between his hometown, Venice, Rome and Milan. He is an artist who, on the borderline between reality and imagination, creates natural forms capable of manifesting primary and primordial aspects. Adventures of earth and water, fire and wind in which natural and artificial, poor and precious are combined. Vigna moves on the border between the real and imaginary worlds, between what is and what appears. Vigna is also widely known for creating unique jewellery pieces that blur the line between sculpture, alchemy and adornment.  His works, from sculptures to jewellery, from works on paper to installations, reflect the breadth and depth of his constant research. He uses various materials including glass, metals and paper, treated in ever new and surprising ways. Vigna explores them and seeks to reveal their hidden possibilities. The forms are primary, expressions of the elements he works with. Strong and natural, universal and timeless, rich in symbolic values. In 2003 Giorgio Vigna created the site-specific installation La Radura for Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu that initiated the Olnick Spanu Art Program. In 2013 the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona hosted the solo […]