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Painter and sculptor, Franco Meneguzzo began working with ceramics in 1949 at the “La Freccia” workshop of Tarcisio Tosin. In 1953 he held a solo exhibition at the Galleria del Calibano in Vicenza, and the following year, after moving to Milan, he found work as a decorator and set designer at the Rai studios.

In 1955, in Milan, he co-founded with Bruno Danese the workshop “DEM” for the production of artistic ceramics, of which he remained a partner until 1957. After its closure, he continued collaborating with Bruno Danese in his new studio “Danese Ceramiche,” a collaboration that lasted until 1963. In 1956 he exhibited some of his works at the Ariete Gallery in Milan. In 1962 he took part in the International Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics in Prague and held a solo exhibition in Milan at the Galleria Il Milione.

From the early 1960s onward, he focused mainly on painting and sculpture, becoming one of the leading figures of Informal art in Italy.

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