Enzo Alberton Biography
Enzo Alberton was born in San Zenone in 1937, he approached ceramics as a child and, at just 15 years old, he began his career as a modeler for art ceramics in Bassano del Grappa. Starting in the 1960s, he ran his own small artisan business, creating prototypes that were subsequently reproduced by casting on plaster molds and then exported mainly to the United States.
Alberto had a long self-taught artistic career and initially preferred drawing and oil painting to represent his native territory, self-portraits, portraits of family members, religious subjects or on commission. However, after retirement, Alberto - who preferred to define himself as a "clay craftsman" rather than an artist - concentrated his activity mainly on the creation of terracottas, with works that reflected the positive values that characterized his personality: family, motherhood, spirituality, authentic faith, compassion and delicate poetry. In other cases, his works brought out his most fantastic, creative and humorous side, with fairy-tale traits or linked to cherished memories of the past.
