Artist Information:
Fabio Butera
Lamezia Terme,
Italy
Member Since: Jul 2006
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Artist Statement:
Fabio Butera
Born in Nicastro (Catanzaro,
Italy) on the 18th of June
1961.
He attended several
craft-workshops on ceramics
and woodwork and learned the
basics of drawing and painting
in his father’s fashion
atelier at Lamezia Terme.
During his early experience in
the field of painting he
contributed to founding
avant-guard movements in
Calabria, like Interno 10 and
Magazzini Voltaire.
He then devoted himself to
sculpture, particularly to the
making of masks in leather,
wood and stone. With this kind
of work he established his
fame in Italy and abroad, with
a series of exhibitions and
installations.
His theatre masks led him to
frequent and fruitful
collaborations with the
theatre world: in 1998 he
became a member of the company
Teatro Proskenion in Scilla
(Italy) and he joined the
international theatre network
Linea Trasversale (based in
Italy, Scotland, Denmark,
Malta, Spain, Brazil, USA).
With Teatro Proskenion in
particular, he has
collaborated to the
organization of several yearly
sessions of the University of
Eurasian Theatre, directed by
Eugenio Barba. Some of his
masks are present in several
international collections,
like Taviani’s (Rome), Odin
Teatret’s (Holstebro,
Denmark), Claudio Bozzi’s
(Melbourne) and at the Drama
Department of ...
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Born in Nicastro (Catanzaro, Italy) on the 18th of June 1961.
He attended several craft-workshops on ceramics and woodwork and learned the basics of drawing and painting in his father’s fashion atelier at Lamezia Terme. During his early experience in the field of painting he contributed to founding avant-guard movements in Calabria, like Interno 10 and Magazzini Voltaire.
He then devoted himself to sculpture, particularly to the making of masks in leather, wood and stone. With this kind of work he established his fame in Italy and abroad, with a series of exhibitions and installations.
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