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This introductory workshop will familiarize students with the methods sculptors use to reductively compose sculpture and execute a finished carving. Working from a block of cast plaster (a recession-proof material!), students will learn how to apply idea development techniques and two-dimensional studies towards an actual carving problem. The carving technique is simple and no previous experience is required. Plaster blocks will be supplied.
For a foundational course on conceptualizing sculptural projects, see Del Deo’s “Idea Building for Sculptors,” to be offered in his Provincetown studio July 13-17.
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Romolo Del Deo lives and works in New York City and Provincetown, MA. At an early age he apprenticed as a stone sculptor in Pietrasanta, Italy with Giannino Giannini, of the Academia di Belli Art di Carrara, Italy; artisan Silverio Paoli; and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. He was educated at Harvard University, where he studied with bronze sculptor Dimitri Hadzi, and subsequently taught and was an Artist in Residence. Committed to artisanal methods of sculpture, Del Deo has worked closely with artisans in traditional materials throughout his career in Italy and the US. In the mid 1990s, he helped build Pietrasanta Fine Arts in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which re-created the classic Italian luto (ludo or block) technique of casting bronze, with the capacity to cast life-size figures in one shot from a single mold. He currently works closely with Somerset Foundry in West Bath, Maine. He teaches creative sculpting and lectures on art theory both here and abroad.
Del Deo has been the recipient of many awards and grants, including the Sugarman Foundation, the Gottlieb Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the David McCord Prize, among others. He has exhibited widely in the United States and in Europe and is represented in many private and public collections including ‘La Porta della Creazione’ for the Church of the Transfiguration in Orleans, MA, one of the largest sets of entirely bronze sculpture doors in the US made by a contemporary artist.
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