Dario Massarotto

Italian artist born in Italy in 1977, lives and works in Iceland since 2013.

Graduated in Fine Art at the Fine Art Academy of Venice (Italy, in 2009), he has been using different techniques and media, such as painting, sculpture and installation.

He also attended VETRORICERCA – GLAS & MODERN, a unique 2 years course about glass tecniques in Bolzano (Italy, 2003-2005), having very famous glass artists from all over the world as teachers.

Glass and its transparency and capacity of revealing the inner essence of reality, has been the focus of his artistic research for a few years.

During this glass master he also got attracted by design, especially by glass jewelry design (having also the possibility to create glass beads using lampworking technique).

In the years 2010-2012 he has been working as a teacher for kids in art and creativity workshops, held at schools, libraries, etc., and the main focus of these classes was to help kids to develop their creativity, mostly using recycled or very cheap materials.

At the same time he started creating very unique and colorful jewelry made with recycled materials and polymer clay, which he has been selling so far in shops in Reykjavik or directly at the studio.