ABOUT
BIO
The CaCO3 collective was founded in 2006 by Âniko Ferreira da Silva (Ravenna, 1976), Giuseppe Donnaloia (Martina Franca, 1976) and Pavlos Mavromatidis (Kavala, Greece, 1979). After completing their training at the School for the Restoration of Mosaic in Ravenna, the three artists embarked on a shared path aimed at bringing the ancient and the contemporary together in the search for new formal possibilities.
The chemical formula of calcium carbonate — or limestone (the stone) — gives the CaCO3 group its name, recalling one of the raw materials commonly used in mosaic artefacts and explicitly underlining the central importance of matter in their research.
The group is based in Ravenna.