A Gianfranco sculpture invites you inward before it invites you to look. The forms, biomorphic lattices of bronze and steel that wrap around a hidden central sphere, are built around the concept he calls "introsculpture": the idea that the most important part of a work is not what is visible on the surface but what it draws you toward inside.
The void is as carefully considered as the form, space entering the work as a material in its own right.
Working in bronze and steel, Meggiato builds without preparatory drawings, allowing each work to grow intuitively from the interplay of material and idea. His scale shifts between the intimate and the monumental, the latter often placed in significant public locations where the works engage directly with history, memory, and social questions.
Born in Venice in 1963, he trained at the Istituto Statale d'Arte and has exhibited at the 54th and 55th Venice Biennale and Manifesta 12. In 2017 he received the ICOMOS-UNESCO Prize for his public installations. Major works have been placed at the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento and the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku.
