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The Award is a silver and bronze sculpture
made by artist Corrado Gambotti.
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Corrado Gambotti was born in Turin in 1922.
Since his youth he warmed to Natural History and, after completing
his education in Architecture and Fine Arts, he took up his great
passion: Taxidermy, which be perfected and improved by modernizing
it through innovative techniques, and it was a short step to
pass from that to the creation of bronzes of the most various
animals. By exploiting his knowledge of compared anatomy of wild
animals all over the world, he created his works by reflecting
their specific and anatomic peculiarities.
In the eighties Gambotti moved to Vancouver (Canada), where be
stryed five years preparing for the Turin Museum of Sciences
a collection of the Great Fauna of North America which was displayed
in the museum.
Some of this bronze and other works are shown in various galleries,
in the main Italian museums as well as in numerous important
private Italian and foreign collections and, since 1991, he has
created bronze medallions portraying animals of the whole world
which the S.C.I. - Italian Chapter - gives to its members as
presents every year.
Corrado Gambotti lives and works at Pavone Canavese (To), via
Circonvallazione 84.

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