1. Gilberto Zorio is known for his use of materials including: incandescent electric light tubes, steel, pitch, motifs, and processes through the use of evaporation and oxidation.
19 Facts About Gilberto Zorio
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Gilberto Zorio creates precarious installations using fragile materials such as Stella di Bronzo and Acidi within his work.
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Gilberto Zorio studied at the Scuola di arte e di ceramica and then the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin.
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Gilberto Zorio originally studied painting, but he soon moved on to sculpture and had his first solo show of three-dimensional works in 1967 at the Galleria Sperone, Turin.
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Gilberto Zorio continued to live there and teach after he graduated.
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Gilberto Zorio participated in the famous exhibition When Attitudes Become Form, organized by Harald Szeemann in Bern.
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Gilberto Zorio has worked with the idea of canoes throughout his career.
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Gilberto Zorio created these using assorted materials such as pitch or steel.
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Gilberto Zorio used javelins as stand-alone objects and has used them to work into other the themes.
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An example of this can be found in Gilberto Zorio's piece titled Stella di giavellotti.
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Gilberto Zorio's Tenda is a work that plays with the laws of physics and chance.
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Gilberto Zorio created three works with the same materials and dimensions that have been realized with the same title.
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For Rosa-blu-rosa Gilberto Zorio created a half-cylinder of asbestos cement that contains a mixture of cobalt chloride.
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Gilberto Zorio took a bowl and filled it with a mix of bright yellow sulphur powder and iron powder.
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Gilberto Zorio's Senza titolo is a piece created out of bamboo branches, bonfire, Pyrex pot, and cement bricks.
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Gilberto Zorio wrote messages on the paper in invisible ink and dropped the page onto the hot plate where the words became visible for a few seconds until the paper burnt up.
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Gilberto Zorio uses many different materials in the creation of these works.
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Gilberto Zorio created this series out of many unconventional materials including: wood, leather, javelins, copper sulphate, hydrochloric acid, and alcohol.
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Gilberto Zorio uses stars and crucibles in conjunction with his canoes which are associated with sailors and navigation.