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Nino Caruso

Nino Caruso was born in 1928 to Sicilian parents in Tripoli, Tunisia. His first exhibition was in 1956 in Rome where had moved two years previously after making contact with the Villa Massimo artistic community. Over the years he showed his creations in solo and collective exhibitions all over the world. In 2015 Caruso organised the landmark show La scultura ceramica contemporanea in Italia (Modern and Contemporary Ceramic Art in Italy) at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Italian National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art). He died in Rome in 2017; in January 2020his works were again under the spotlights in a full-fledged retrospective in Kyoto, Japan.