Ecovision World Environment Day 2006 at ARMANI BAR/HK Party Photos here…

Yesterday we were a proud sponsor of the World Environment Day celebration and exhibition of renowned artist “CIRO” … Roberto Cipollone (Ciro) was born in Pescara in 1947 where he spent his childhood and years as a young man around the foundry run by his father.

In 1970 he went to Holland were he lived for six years employed as a factory worker. Later on he commented on this period of his life with these words: In the factory where I worked in Holland I made ten thousand screws a day. It was a monotonous job, where any artistic strain was sacrificed. It represented for me a detachment from the world of the arts and this sharpened my desire to see beautiful things?

In 1977 he moved in Loppiano; near Florence, were he is living and working up to the present.
Here in 1982 he established and developed a Bottega Di Ciro- a medieval-like artistic workshop, where painting, sculpture, architecture, art and craftsmanship are in harmony.

For his work he employs several materials: wood, iron, stone, fabric, whatever waste material, which he considers as the richest of life. ‘The material I use is a clear and well oriented choice: it’s intentionally not precious. It’s value is hidden. I only try to let the object tell those humble stories which are still unknown.”