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Vincenzo Del Monaco
Born in Grottaglie (TA), Apulia Puglia, Italy, on August 6th 1981.
He experienced ceramic art and sculpture since childhood within the internationally renowned family workshop (five generations old), where he practices nowadays in Grottaglie, one of the well-know ceramic Italian centres settled since many centuries in a specialized neighbourhood of ceramic workshops. He graduated in Architecture on March 2006 in Rome at Sapienza School of Architecture.
He worked at Studio Fuksas Associati in Rome, at Coophimmelb(l)au Studio in Wien.
He has participated in design competitions obtaining prizes and mentions.
Since 2009 he lives and works in Grottaglie with the idea of experimenting and developing a repertoire in the field of artistic ceramics based on the tradition of craftsmanship artistic and its possible future developments in the third millennium.
Since 2013 Vincenzo collaborates with Andrea Berton designing and producing table-sets and design objects for Andrea Berton Restaurant in Milan.
In 2014 he collaborated with Italo Rota for Sarco-phagus Between Nature, Love and Death.
From 2017 he collaborates with the company Vulcania Ceramiche, designing the Gourmet line and the fire pans line for induction.