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BIO/

WORDS BRIDGE DISTANCES

American artist, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina with Italian origins. Today I live and work in Ojai, Ventura County, California. My passion for sculpture leads me to travel frequently to Carrara, Italy where I create marble sculptures in specialized workshops.

I often wonder of what the Art intends to express. This questioning has led me to a more intellectual approach, conceptual and emotional: the Civilization and Nature. I started to give to my sculptures symbolic meanings: organic forms were put in a continuous dialectic relationship with geometric volumes.The creative act and mind returns to me constantly to Nature, in a poetic travel. Shapes are idyllic and serene, but also tormented, agitated. Nothing is static, forms takes over space. Matter is alive, it transforms everything. The cycles of Nature remove old layers and renew them, just like life itself.

In the past, I have worked with alphabet and letters, and the fascination for this is reveals itself later in my sculptural work. So, the letter as well as the word in its form and content wants strongly to express itself through the material, in an emotive and conceptual way.

As mentioned in the dedication of my thesis in the Academy in Florence, "Words Bridge Distances". This has always been very characteristic for me being that my family is divided between Italy, Argentina and United States. The word goes beyond the gesture, the word is the only way to try to express the emotion, to be nearer. Not to communicate is a distance, a chasm, an abyss." Art intends to communicate and open questions. It is a way of thinking.


EDUCATION
Professional Degree.
”Istituto Professionale per l’Industria e l’Artigianato del Marmo Tacca”-Carrara, Toscana 
2023-2025
Pursuing a Professional Diploma in Industry and Craftsmanship for “Made in Italy” focused on technical and professional skills aligned with Italy’s most prestigious industrial sectors in Marble Specialization.
• 2 years of learning traditional Marble Carving and Figurative Sculpture.

Fine Arts (Bachelor’s)
Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze-Firenze, Italy
2010-2013
Degree in sculpture from Florence’s main state institution for comprehensive fine arts. “Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze”
• 3-year of Bachelor’s with advanced specialization, including traditional techniques in drawing, anatomy, clay modeling, plaster, bronze casting, stone carving. 

Graphic design (Bachelor’s)
University of Buenos Aires-Buenos Aires, Argentina
 

AWARD
Clarice Plana Award December 2013
The Clarice Plana Award for the best dissertation (often associated with the recognition of "Best Graduate Student") of 2013 was granted to Constanza Di Gregorio by the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze (Academy of Fine Arts in Florence).
  • Academic Achievement: She graduated from the Academy's Sculpture department with the highesthonors (110/110 lode).
  • Award Category: Best 2013 Dissertation.
  • Thesis Title: "The Dream of the Word. Conversation with Jaume Plensa".
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EXHIBITIONS
2023-2025. 
Exhibition "Idyllic" at Collector Car Vault, Santa Paula. California

2022. Exhibition "Introspection" at La Bottega. Laguna Beach, California.

2018. Exhibition "Portal" at Art City Studios Gallery. Ventura, California.

2013
Exhibition of artwork. Workshop organized for the “Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze”. According with the exchange program with University of Athens. Pyrgos, Tinos Island, Greece.

2013    
Book Pop Up Exhibition, "Lo Sguardo dell'Altro" (The Sight of the Other). Bilbao, Spain. 
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In the picture: 'To Bibaio Anemoi' Performance. Tynos, Greece
My art is a poetic journey of shapes and emotions that is inspired by Nature.

cdigregorio@gmail.com

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