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No. 87
‘A piece of landscape’
Porcelain. 41cm / 24cm / 11cm.
Artist biography
Fernando Casasempere was born in Santiago, Chile. He moved to London in 1997, where he works and lives. His sculptures have been extensively shown in Latin and North America and in Europe. In 1992 he won the Scholarship Prize Andes Foundation. In 2004, he was awarded residency at the Denmark Keramik museum in Guldagergard, Denmark. In 2005, his work was exhibited at the New Art Centre, near Salisbury. Recent exhibitions of his work have been mounted at L'Eclarieur in Paris, 2004, at the Gallery AMS Marlborough,Santiago, Chile, 2003. Casasempere's sculpture have been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including the Centro Cultural Estacion Mapocho, Santiago, Chile, 1995, The Contemporary Art Museum, Osaka, 1993; the Hara Museum, Tokyo, 1992 and three shows organized by Studio Caparrelli, London,includingone at Galleria Carlo Orsi, Milan. His work is represented in several public collections including The Victoria And Albert Museum, London, as well as inprivate collections in Spain, the United States, Middle East and Latin America. He has recently completed a commission for a monumental sculpture for the Jerwood sculpture Park at Ragley Hall.
Artwork courtesy of Fernando Casasempere and Studio Caparrelli.
