DIEGO PILLER COTTRER – 1967 – SAPPADA
Ever since he was a child, Diego has breathed the air of the Sappadine carnival ‘Plodar Vosenocht’, helping his father Mario Piller Cottrer in the cleaning of the masks, which he used to make as a self-taught artist to use with his family in the various raids on Sappadine houses and carnival celebrations.
Subsequently, at the end of the 1980s, he began face painting and then took up a passion for carving, trying to maintain the characteristic Sappada masks known as ‘Lorvn’ in dialect.
In the years 1995-2020, together with Pierfrancesco Solero, in the context of the carnival, he organised the ‘Schnitzar Bette’ carving competition to encourage young Sappadin people to create new masks every year.
In the early 2020s, he became involved in the ‘Mascherai Alpini’ group, enthusiastically representing Sappada’s carnival culture at the various symposia and congresses organised.
He still participates in the various symposia and meetings together with his son Stefano Piller Cottrer, who is also a carver and passionate mask maker. The family tradition therefore continues!
