Adolf Vallazza

Adolf Vallazza was born in Ortisei (Bz) in 1924. His father was an iron sculptor and his mother was the daughter of the painter Josef Moroder Lusenberg. In the 1960s, his first exhibitions were staged in Milan, Turin and Venice. Critics like Giorgio Mascherpa, Garibaldo Marussi, Giuseppe Marchiori, Paolo Viti and others frequented his studio and wrote about him, inviting him to various exhibitions. In the 1970s, he forged a friendship and working relationship with the photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin. In the 1990s, the then curator of the Peggy Guggenheim foundation, Fred Licht invited him to various sculpture exhibitions in Florence, Turin, Padua and Palermo. In 2010, the GAM (National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art) curator Danilo Eccher invited him to Turin for a group show entitled "Keep your seat," where he exhibited his mythical thrones. Exhibitions of his work have been shown in castles, historic buildings and churches, both in Italy and abroad. Since 2016, his totems, fantastic characters, menhirs and thrones have been on display in a new showroom in Ortisei, visited by admirers, critics and collectors from all over the world.