06/05/2026
Gianfranco Meggiato was born on August 26, 1963, in Venice where he attended the Istituto Statale d’Arte studying sculpture in stone, bronze, wood, and ceramics. In his work, Meggiato looks to the great masters of the 20th century: Brancusi for his search for essentiality, Moore for the internal-external relationship of his maternities, and Calder for the openness to space of his works.
Space, in fact, enters Meggiato’s works and the void becomes as important as the full. The essential is invisible to the eyes: you cannot touch ideals, feelings, dreams, you can only live them. The artist models his sculptures taking inspiration from biomorphic tissue and the labyrinth, which symbolizes man’s tortuous path aimed at finding himself and revealing his own precious inner sphere. Meggiato thus invents the concept of “introsculpture” in which the observer’s gaze is drawn towards the interiority of the work, not limiting itself only to the external surfaces. “On a formal level, space and light do not border the work, they slide over it as if it were an object in the round, and pe*****te its interior, wrapping lattices and tangles, reaching the point of illuminating the central sphere as the ideal point of arrival.”
Since 1998, he has been invited to exhibit in museums, galleries, and public squares all over the world: USA, Canada, Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Principality of Monaco, Ukraine, Russia, India, China, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, South Korea, Singapore, Taipei, Australia.
He has also been invited to exhibit at the 54th and 55th VENICE BIENNALE in the national pavilions (2011-2013) and at MANIFESTA12 (2018).……
