Giancarlo Franco Tramontin

Giancarlo Franco was born in Venice in 1931. He studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice where he has been first apprentice, then assistant of Alberto Viani. Subsequently he became holder of the chair of sculpture at the same Academy. He is coordinator of the New Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. In 1956 he won a study grant to Greece of the Ministry of Public Instruction. Since the early Fifties he has been exposing in a number of one-man exhibitions and he has been invited to compete for the most important national an international contests, gaining prizes and acknowledgments.

Tramontin is aware of the limits of rational knowledge and in his works the concept of a new and necessary ideal of beauty shines through. In his long career, Tramontin coherently adheres to these premises that are both learned and simple request of daily life, as confirmed by the results he’s achieved by his work. The twenty century artistic vanguards, particularly the works of Henri Matisse, Jean Arp, Henry Moore and also Arturo Martini and Alberto Viani, the latters both immediate predecessors with the chair of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts In Venice where he, later on, will be teaching for several lustres, represent the beginnings of his aesthetic adventure, always accompanied by a theoretical verification by means of the attentive reading about what is going on the current cultural debate.

Theory and praxis still are essential and lead Tramontin to concentrate on the object of his research that plainly express itself in its form per se, out of any other pretense. He uses chalk, wood, bronze or the refined marble of Carrara and constantly applies to the line as compositive and rhythmical structure of the entire work.