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Giancarlo Frison (1949 - ) was born in the countryside of the Selve di S. Benedetto in 1949. He undertook his high school studies among the students of the Praglia Monastery, at the Episcopal Seminary of Padua, where he discovered his passion for plastic modelling, thanks also to the contribution from the sculptor Licia Boldrin, niece of the sculptor Paolo Boldrin. Read the full biography

Giancarlo Frison (1949 - ) was born in the countryside of the Selve di S. Benedetto in 1949. He undertook his high school studies among the students of the Praglia Monastery, at the Episcopal Seminary of Padua, where he discovered his passion for plastic modelling, thanks also to the contribution from the sculptor Licia Boldrin, niece of the sculptor Paolo Boldrin. He graduated in Contemporary Art and the large sculpture exhibitions and the meetings with artists and critics stimulate in him, together with his studies, a passion for abstract, geometric sculpture and for the world of morphogenetic intuitions originating from primary solids, from topology , from the nodes. The meeting with Giò Pomodoro and Max Bill was decisive in this phase. He took part in some exhibitions in the early 1980s, including the 13th bronze and small sculpture exhibition in Padua, the V and VI Biennial of Dante's bronze in Ravenna and «Twenty years with art» at Ca' Pesaro in Venice . The further emergence of a critical estrangement from the elite places of art and the participation in commissions destined for the spaces of simple everyday life led him to meet the need for a new language and to develop an original stylistic idiom.