About the Artist

Antonino “NINO” Quartana was born in Palermo, Sicily on May 30, 1960. He is a painter, a stage designer and a ceramist.

He attended the Arts High School and Fine Arts at University in Palermo. His art works have been showcased in Italy and other parts of the world since 1979.

While in Milan he worked for the Italian television network RAI, Radiotelevisione 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.

In January 2007 he moved to Manila where he is living and painting at present. His works have been exhibited in many Art Galleries such as “Ayala Museum”, “Galleria 2000 and other.

In 2008 he was in Legaspi where he held a workshop for the students of the local art school as well as for local artists.