Giorgio Conta, 1978 | Figurative sculptor | Tutt'Art@ | Pittura * Scultura * Poesia * Musica

Italian artist Giorgio Conta was born in Cles and lives and works in Monclassico in Val di Sole (TN).

He grew up in an artistic environment where, being his father a well known artist, he came into contact with various personalities from the art and culture world, including the great pianist Arturo Benedetti Michel-angeli, close friend of the family, who expressed the wish to be his Godfather.

After having earned his high-school diploma he attended a sculpture school devoting himself to painting and drawing as well.

Travelling through Italy and abroad has given him a solid cultural education and training.

Giorgio alternates his work as a sculptor with that of a painter, profane art with sacred art.

He had the opportunity to learn more about the theme of the Sacred participating in and collaborating with the Master Program on liturgical adaptation and design for buildings of worship, held in Trento in 2006.

His artistic research focuses mainly on the figure.

Which can be dreamlike wrapped in the mystery that contains unknowns, restlessness, wonder, enigmas of existence.

Life, in all its forms, has always been a cause for reflection for him.

He does not understand the figure as being in a fragmentary state of ruin, in the belief that it is aesthetically more eloquent and meaningful than when it was complete and intact.

The fragment is not to be understood as a piece of broken object, a detached part or a splinter of a lost and no longer attainable wholeness, but rather as a building, an assembling to reach wholeness, which can then be completed in the eye and mind of the beholder.

Instead of fragments, it would be better to define them as detached, isolated "parts", "particulars", "details" placed in the foreground and thus highlighted.

These details are elements of a puzzle that can be ideally recomposed, as a similitude of contemporary man "fragmented" inwardly in a sort of new palingenesis.

Giorgio counts the inspiration for the forms of his sculptures mainly in the nature of the woods and mountains that surround him.

In 2010 he met Pope Benedict XVI and gave him the sketch of the sculpture “Monument to Life” which was made for the sanctuary of Pietralba (Bolzano).

One of his artworks, presented by Philippe Daverio, came under the hammer at Christie’s auction house.

Among those who wrote about him Pupi Avati, Valerio Dehò, Luigi Marsiglia, Enzo Bianchi, Massimiliano Castellani, Renzo Francescotti, Paolo Levi.

Nato a Cles (Trentino-Alto Adige), Giorgio Conta è cresciuto in un ambiente familiare estremamente stimolante.

Fin da giovanissimo è entrato in rapporto con vari personaggi della cultura, tra i quali il grande pianista Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, caro amico di famiglia, il quale ha voluto essere suo padrino di battesimo.

Dopo aver conseguito il diploma di maturità al liceo linguistico ha frequentato la scuola di scultura di Ortisei dedicandosi anche al disegno e alla pittura.

I numerosi viaggi compiuti in Italia ed all’estero hanno validamente contribuito alla sua formazione culturale.

Giorgio Conta alterna l’attività di scultore con quella di pittore, l’arte profana con quella sacra.

Nello specifico ha avuto modo di approfondire il tema del sacro partecipando e collaborando al master per l’adeguamento liturgico e la progettazione degli edifici per il culto tenutosi a Trento nel 2006.

Collabora spesso con il padre Livio nella realizzazione di opere monumentali ed ha partecipato a varie mostre personali e collettive.