Gianfranco Meggiato Italy, b. 1963

Works
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Cubo con cuore
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Cubo con cuore
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    l 15 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Sfera Atman
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Sfera Atman
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    d 27 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Vortice Interiore, 2024
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Vortice Interiore, 2024
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    h 120 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Taurus, 2017
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Taurus, 2017
    Aluminum and bronze (lost wax casting)
    h 300 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Sfera Ballando Sul Mondo
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Sfera Ballando Sul Mondo
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    d 45 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Sfera Cabala
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Sfera Cabala
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    d 20 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Triade
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Triade
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    h 120 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Sfera Sole
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Sfera Sole
    Bronze (lost wax casting), stainless steel
    d 150 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Il Mio Pensiero Libero
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Il Mio Pensiero Libero
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    h 200 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Sfera Orione
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Sfera Orione
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    d 60 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Sfera Primigenia
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Sfera Primigenia
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    d 45 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Frequenze Auree
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Frequenze Auree
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    d 115 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Colpo d'Ala
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Colpo d'Ala
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    h 110 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Sfera Zaphira
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Sfera Zaphira
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    d 45 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Sfera Conchiglia
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Sfera Conchiglia
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    d 60 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Mistral
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Mistral
    Bronze (lost wax casting), Red painted
    h 115 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Taurus
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Taurus
    Bronze (lost wax casting), chromed
    h 80 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Taurus
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Taurus
    Aluminum (lost wax casting), stainless steel
    h 200 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Mistral
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Mistral
    Aluminum (lost wax casting), stainless steel
    h 300 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Sfera Agharta
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Sfera Agharta
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    d 40 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Sfera Embrione
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Sfera Embrione
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    d 45 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Scorpius
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Scorpius
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    h 137 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Sfera Conchiglia
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Sfera Conchiglia
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    d 120 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Oltre il finito
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Oltre il finito
    Aluminum (lost wax casting)
    h 200 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Sfera Quantica
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Sfera Quantica
    Aluminum magnesium (lost wax casting), stainless steel, bronze
    d 120 cm
  • Gianfranco Meggiato, Sfera Sole, 2015
    Gianfranco Meggiato
    Sfera Sole, 2015
    Bronze (lost wax casting)
    d 20 cm
Biography
Gianfranco Meggiato was born on 26 August 1963 in Venice, where he attended the State Institute of Art, studying sculpture in stone, bronze, wood and ceramics. Meggiato’s work looks at the great masters of the XX century: Brancusi for his research into essentiality, Moore for the internal-external relationship with motherhood and Calder for the way his works open into space. Space, in fact, enters Meggiato’s works and the void becomes as important as the solid.
In fact, the essential is invisible to the eyes: you cannot touch ideals, feelings or dreams – you can only live them.
Meggiato models his sculptures inspired by the biomorphic fabric and the labyrinth symbolising mankind’s tortuous path towards self-awareness and the discovery of a precious inner sphere. He consequently invented the concept of “intro-sculpture” in which the observer’s gaze is drawn into the soul of the work and not merely its external surfaces.
An artist of International status since 1998, he takes part in exhibitions and art fairs in Italy and around the world (USA, Canada, Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Montecarlo, Ukraine, Russia, India, China, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, South Korea, Singapore, Taipei, Hong Kong and Australia).
In 2011 and 2013 he was invited to the join the Italian pavilions at the Venice Biennial.
In 2017, Meggiato turned his attention to scientific and social issues through monumental works implemented in large public installations:
“The Garden of the Silent Muses” (Catanzaro 2017) stood as a symbolic defence of our values and our culture against terrorism.
“The Spiral of Life” (Palermo 2018) during the Manifesta 12 event was dedicated to the innocent victims of the mafia.
“The Garden of Zyz” for Matera European Capital of Culture (2019) sought to be a meeting point between cultures often in contrast with each other in the logic that Everything is One.
“Quantum Man: There is no Future without Memory”(2021) was a large solo exhibition with monumental works set up in the Valley of Temples in Agrigento (Sicily) as an attempt to find a point of contact between archaeology, philosophy and quantum physics.
“The Spiral of Life”(2022). set up for Prato City Council and the Pecci museum was a revival of the installation dedicated to the innocent victims of the mafia.
These installations earned the ICOMOS-UNESCO AWARD “for his masterful combination of the ancient and the contemporary in sculptural installations of imposing evocative power and aesthetic value”
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