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Quartana is a painter, a
stage designer and a ceramist. He attended the Arts High School and Fine Arts at
University in Palermo. His artworks have been showcased
in Italy and other parts of the world since 1979.
While in Milan he worked
for the Italian television network RAI, Radiotelevision
Italiana, realizing sceneries, theater costumes and
promotional costumes. He also designed and realized
display stands for BIT (International Tourism Fair) in
Milan and for other important arts and business events
in Italy.
While in Sicily he was
the artistic manager of the Ceramics Atélier of "Atélier
sul mare", a unique hotel situated in Castel di Tusa,
near Cefalù which showcases the masterpieces of the most
important international artists. His works are still
exhibited in the permanent collection of the hotel
museum "Fiumara d' Arte".
He was also asked by the
Arts and Philosophy Department of Palermo University to
reconstruct real sized three-dimensional pre-historic
sites.
He has been a teacher of
painting techniques and stagecraft in several qualifying
courses funded by public and private organizations and
has also worked for programmes funded by the European
Union and the Sicilian Region and aimed at the
rehabilitation of children at risk by means of painting,
stagecraft and drama.
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