Nino Caruso
Buon compleanno Nino Caruso (1928-2017)! After his youth spent in Sicily and Tripoli, Italian maestro Nino Caruso moved to Rome in 1951. Through the ceramist Salvatore Meli, he frequented Villa Massimo where he encountered Leoncillo among others. In 1954?he established his ceramics studio where traditional techniques co-existed with experiments in materials and forms of expression. The innovation of slicing styrofoam with a hot wire in 1965 revolutionized his working methods
