Ph. Nanni Sibona Tacco
Tommaso Tosco was born in Santena (To) in 1957, where he currently lives and works.
Ceramist and polyhedral artist, at the end of the Seventies he started from a careful research on the material, to sculpture and large installations, starting a profitable collaboration with some contemporary art galleries in Turin, like the Martano Gallery – which already followed Nanni Valentini’s work – and the Luisella D’Alessandro Gallery.
In 1986 he took part in the prestigious The International Ceramics Festival of Mino in Japan.
Collaborator and friend of Nanni Valentini, from whom he learned the technical knowledge and the culture of ceramics, as well as passionate user of contemporary music – from John Cage’s Landscapes to the new wave sounds of Talking Heads, to experimental compositions by Morton Feldman – he transferred to his work the rigor and essentiality of the forms together with the inspiration for experimentation on the material.
Despite his successful career, at the end of the 1980s, Tosco moved away from the art system for personal reasons, continuing, independently, to experiment with ceramics and metals.