F. Rigon Biography
Francesco Rigon (1949 - ) was born in Piovene Rocchette, Vicenza, in 1949. Sculptor and ceramist active in Nove, province of Vicenza, after studying at the Art Institute of Nove and at the School of Industrial Design in Venice, he became a professor at artistic high school in Padua and subsequently at the Art Institute, Nove. It is the creative research in the ceramic field that will engage him most. In his CV he also boasts concrete experience in the field of industrial design, in that unique and unrepeatable period at the beginning of the 70s when he founded, with his colleague Toni Bernardi and Massimo Gosetto, the Giallo laboratory, an experimental design, photography and graphics studio. Advertising. The knowledge and approach to ancient traditional Italian cultures leaves its mark on reinserting millenary forms and symbols into iconographic contexts that mix death with dreams, primitivism with the present. Among the numerous exhibitions and competitions in which the artist has distinguished himself. Just to give a few examples. 1970 Andrea Palladio Competition, Vicenza, First prize Laboratorio Giallo 1972. International Industrial Design Competition, Vicenza 1973. International Industrial Design Competition, Vicenza, First prize Bernardi-Rigon International Ceramics Competition, Faenza, Bernardi-Rigon gold medal 1974 International Ceramics Competition, Faenza, Gold Medal International Industrial Design Competition, Vicenza. Second prize Bernardi-Rigon 1975 International Industrial Design Competition, Vicenza, Third prize Bernardi-Rigon 1981 Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice 1985 Keramikos. Art Institute. Nove 1987 1n-against Ceramists of Faenza and Nove, Palazzo De Fabris, Nove 1989. International Competition of Art Ceramics, Faenza “Am Fenster”, Nove (personal exhibition), Fictilia in Vicenza and the traveling exhibition in Japan ” 50 years of Italian ceramics” in which they dedicated the poster to Francesco Rigon.
