Paolo Baruffaldi, is a painter and master engraver living in Italy. In 1975 he graduated in Philosophy and began his first graphic experiments with Licata, Sanchini, and Goetz.  In 1982, and 1983 he took part in the Contemporary Art Meetings organized by the municipality of Anacapri and coordinated by Gillo Dorfles. In 1983, he presented at the Center George Pompidou in Paris, the volume “Carnival in Venice”, published by the Doge Editore.  In the same year, the artistic project “Venezia Capitale” begins, carried out in three successive phases: La Mala Pianta, works on concrete, canvas, plexiglass, 1983; Lovers, reliefs, works on wooden shapes, 1984; -Il Gran Narciso, works on paper and canvas, 1986. In 1988 he exhibited “Made in Italy”, an ironic title to present a corpus of engravings inspired by clothing.

CADORE is an artist master engraver.  He trained artistically by attending courses in engraving techniques at the International School of Graphics in Venice and the summer courses in Xylography at the Art Institute of Urbino.  Professionally he has dedicated himself to classic engraving techniques since 1977, the year in which he opened the first graphics laboratory in Venice.

Each of its plates (copper, brass, or zinc matrix) is conceived, engraved, and printed directly in the art studio of the BAC Art Studio Gallery in Venice.

Cadore, since 1977, has introduced a very personal (and often imitated) use of inking “à la poupée” which has modified the traditional 18th-19th century way of conceiving landscape printing.  A Cadore aquatint is usually “pulled” in a low number of specimens (from 22 to 44). The artist’s proofs do not exceed 10 copies.  Cadore’s graphic production includes views of Venice and the Lagoon, miniatures such as flowers, cats, insects, and historical figures, as well as characters drawn from the history of art.

In 1987 he published, with Baruffaldi, an original “Venetian Alphabet”: a collection of 23 color aquatints with texts by Emanuele Horodniceanu.