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Gerardo Sacco was born in Crotone in 1940.
In his teenage years, he got a job at a small
goldsmith’s workshop and it was there that he
found his true vocation in life: to craft and
model gold and silver.
After learning the fundamentals of the goldsmith’s
art and feeling a growing desire to express his
creativity, he went to Valenza Po to perfect his own
techniques and the processes of working gold. He was
enriched by this experience that pushed him, full of
enthusiasm and passion, to go back to his native town to
establish, in 1969, his own craftsmanship company.
In his “laboratory-workshop”, he recuperated the
craftsmanship techniques from the past, and
specialised in a production dating back to the
Magna-Grecian culture and to the Mediterranean
farming traditions.
During the same year, he produced his first sample
products, for which he was awarded with the 1st
prize at the Mostra dell’Artigianato Orafo (Goldsmith’s
Exhibition) in Florence and with the Oscar dell’Artigianato
(Craftsman’s Oscar) at the
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Exhibition of Sanremo.
These early national successes gave Gerardo Sacco
a name within the goldsmith’s field thanks to his
original and unique creations, making him the most
famous Calabrian goldsmith throughout Italy and
abroad, in virtue also of his particular affinity
with the world of show business and the academic world.
In fact, his works have always taken precedence in
exhibitions which take people on a historical journey
starting from the Magna-Grecian times and ending with
the present day. Other than his works having been exhibited
in the Vittoriano Complex in Rome and in Musei
Vaticani (Vatican Museum), Gerardo Sacco’s works have
been exhibited at important events organised by various
Italian Institutes of Foreign Culture, such as in Brussels,
Lisbon, Copenhagen and Madrid.
His jewellery has also exalted the glamour of various movie
stars in many cinema, theatre and television productions
including Liz Taylor, Isabella Rossellini,
Monica Bellucci and Elena Sofia Ricci.
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