Paolo Carosone
Paolo Carosone (born January 8, 1941 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian painter, sculptor, etcher and multimedia artist. Biography Paolo Carosone lived in Rome until 1960, then left for Amsterdam where he studied drawing and sculpture at the Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs until 1962. To pay for his studies, he made plaster statues in a workshop of religious articles, then became a guide at the International Flower Market in Aalsmeer, Netherlands, where he became deeply interested in botany. In 1962 he moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, to study etching with Professor Holger Jensen at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, receiving two annual scholarships from the Danish Government. He remained in Copenhagen until 1966. During his stay at the Academy he developed a strong interest in the natural sciences (specifically, in entomology) and in music. He produced his first "sound bas-reliefs": sculptures that could be "played" by the public through various mechanisms. The Gammel Strand Gallery in Copenhagen organizes the first major exhibition of his work. In 1965 he went to the USA, for the very first time,bwhere the Museum of Modern Art of New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art bought several of his works. The American Art Gallery in