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Vince Vozzo - Australian Sculptor |
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Vince Vozzo - Australian Sculptor
 Vince Vozzo is a carver in a world of welders and installation artists, a humanist in a contemporary art scene dominated by nihilists. In a age when artists routinely hire craftsmen to make their work for them, Vozzo toils unceasingly in his studio, sometimes up to seven days a week, chipping away at unco-operative pieces of sandstone and marble. He is the antithesis of everything that is fashionable in art and distinction that makes him both proud and angry.
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Vince carves out a career in art |
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 Vince carves out a career in art
Australian Sculptor Vince Vozzo had 10 pieces of marble, weighimg 22tonnes, delivered from the stone quarries of Carrara late last year.
Vozzos plan is to make a series of sculptures from it and the first will be in honour of Michelangelo.
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Article by The
Glebe - newspaper
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Australian Sculptor Vince - Losing his marble |
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 Losing his marble
Australian Sculptor Vince Vozzo sadly farewelled his head this week. Its been with him for five years but he had to let it go because somebody paid him more than $130000 for it.
All eight tonnes of it were loaded onto a truck to be taken to its final resting place on a farm outside Sydney. It is the biggest sculpture ever carved by one person in Australia.
Click on picture to read newspaper clip.
Read about the making of the head here
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