PIETRO RUFFO (Italy, 1978). Untitled. Mixed media on paper. Signed on the back. Size: 46 x 55 cm; 66 x 74,5 cm (frame). This work is part of Pietro Ruffo s paper micro-architectures, in which the artist (an architect by training) uses scalpels. Pietro Ruffo is an Italian multidisciplinary artist and ceramist. After studying architecture in Rome, he travelled to Beslan, Russia, to work with the children who survived the massacre at their local school by Chechen rebels. Pietro Ruffo has also worked on other public projects, including a sculpture proposal for Ground Zero, a project at the psychiatric hospital in Colmar and art workshops with disadvantaged children. He won the Cairo Prize in 2009 and the New York Prize in 2010. Maria Grazia Chiuri, former creative director of Valentino, chose him to present Memorabilia, the Roman fashion house s 50th anniversary show at Place Mignanelli. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in museums and foundations. To cite a few solo exhibitions: 1998: Air Terminal, Ostiense, Rome. 2008: Testori, London. 2011 Di Meo, Paris. Group exhibitions. 2001: Gallery of Modern Art, Sendai, Japan.