Fabio Viale blesses our sights with a refined, cultured, eccentric, and extraordinarily contemporary approach to historic marble sculpting, through a hyper-realistic series of work.
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Born in 1975 in the nation?s third largest province known as Cuneo, Italy, artist Fabio Viale is revered for his awe-inspiring and jaw dropping work as a marble sculptor. Kickstarting his career at the tender age of 16, Fabio has dedicated his life to learning the secrets of his trade through close-apprenticeships with practicing craftsmen whilst schooling at Tunin?s very own Academy of Fine Arts.
Fabio Viale Explores The Inherent Beauty and Hardness of Sacred and Profane, Criminal Tattoos.
Propelling to fame at an unimaginable rate, Fabio Viale?s work has since evolved from producing architectural design components and statues for the monumental cemetery of Milan, to increasingly contemporary projects.

Debuting his first independent project in 2013, at the Sperone Westwater Gallery in New York, Fabio Viale showcased the world?s first ever fully functioning and floating marble boat ? an invention which has earned him the most important recognition for contemporary art in Italy, known as the Cairo Prize.

Since then, the Italian sculptor has continually blessed our sights with a refined, cultured, eccentric, and extraordinarily contemporary approach to the historic ar...