Gino Cavicchioli (born March 9, 1957) was born in

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and is a Canadian

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/artist based in

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, Canada. Having spent most of his formative years in

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, he cites the work of the

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as the earliest influence of his style.Gino Cavicchioli Official Website: Biography
Retrieved January 15, 2008 Michael Pinball Clemons

Cavicchioli is currently the official sculptor for the

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which houses a large selection of his portrait busts that spans almost ten years. To the left of this paragraph is the portrait bust of football player

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created by Cavicchioli for the Canadian Football Hall of Fame Induction 2008. Pinball is the most famous former player of the

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and also one of the most popular professional athletes in the history of

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. Although not a football player himself, Cavicchioli has great respect for the game and especially the players. "Football is just one more avenue that we may choose to excel in, it doesn't matter what we chose as long as we love and give it our total best," he says. Each portrait bust he sculpts begins abstractly in clay, then builds up into a realistic vision of the person. Once he feels he has captured an accurate likeness, the final sculpture is cast in bronze. A bronze sculpture honouring Margaret and Charles Juravinski was unveiled in November 2008 at the Juravinski Cancer Centre in Hamilton to commemorate the couple's $43 million donation to various health care projects across the city in 2006. It was placed in the lobby of the new

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and Cancer Care Centre in 2012.

References

External links

Gino Cavicchioli
official website

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cavicchioli, Gino Canadian sculptors Canadian male sculptors Artists from Hamilton, Ontario 1957 births Living people Canadian people of Italian descent