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C arlo Pagoda
the Garden Path
Balance (detail)
Bronze & steel, 2006
180 x 40cm
Carlo was born in Italy in 1956. His family migrated to Australia when
he was three and he grew up in Adelaide where he studied design,
graduating to work as a graphic designer. In 1987 he went to London
and worked as a graphic designer for Sir Terence Conran. Two years
later he moved again, this time to the USA where he worked as a
creative director in San Francisco for twelve years. His self taught art
practice includes painting, sculpture, ceramics and mixed media, and
it was during his time in Northern California that he began exhibiting at
various shows and galleries including the Bohemian Club in San
Francisco. In 2001 he returned to Australia and now lives and works in
Melbourne as a graphic designer, but has also actively continued to
pursue his art practice through various exhibitions including The Toorak
Village Festival of Sculpture and shows at Yarra Sculpture Gallery,
Linden Gallery and Anita Traverso Gallery in Richmond.
Maintaining a
balance in our global
ecosystem and climate
patterns is up to us.
Mother Earth can only do
so much, suspended
between the pull of the
sun and moon, the rest is
our responsibility and that
of future generations. We
will either learn to work
with the continual process
of renewal that the
seasons bring us, or be
caught plundering the
limited resources we’ve
been given and be cast
adrift on an eternal
wintery sea. That fine
balance, we hold in our
hands.
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