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“I paint stories where tradition breathes, animals speak, and memory remains.”
Bio
I am Mauro, born in 1980 in the ceramic city of Grottaglie, in the wonderful southern region of Puglia, Italy. I am the third generation of a family with a long ceramic tradition, with grandparents and great-grandparents devoted to pottery and clay decoration.
As a child, I often visited the workshop of my grandfather Leonardo, nicknamed Puparieuddu, where my other grandfather, Ugo Basile....
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Stop motion filmed in my first Sotto Scala workshop. A tuna (tono) transformed into a Pinocchio-style puppet: every lie he tells makes his nose grow comically.
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