​From a young age, Guerrino Tramonti’s main interests were painting and sculpture, strongly influencing his post-war ceramic works, textiles and tapestries (1950-1960). Aged 12 onwards, he attended school for design and sculpture, classes at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Ravenna and learned ceramic decoration under Anselmo Bucci. 1931, Tramonti participated in national exhibitions earning him recognition (Concorso Premi Rimini di Pittura e Scultura - 1st prize, 1931; Rubicone competitions 1931, 1934) and praise.

 

His sculptures, mostly executed in terracotta, a material then common in Italy for the plastic arts, presented him as a sculptor - ce ramicist at exhibitions, including the third Quadriennale in Rome in 1939.

 

The war years in Venice, spent with his friends Felice Carena, Bruno Saetti and Filippo de Pisis influenced his return to painting. Tramonti’s most productive period of ceramic making and experimentation with majolica, grès and porcelain and research into new decorative techniques, including surface vitrification, began after World War II. Tramonti’s graphic and painterly style betrays his close connection with the international avant-garde, including Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger.

 

Exhibitions and competitions include: Faenza exhibitions/competitions (1938, 1939, 1949, 1952 « Premio Faenza », 1953, 1954 « Premio Faenza », 1955), Italy at Work. Her Renaissance in Design Today, USA, 1950–1953, Moderne Italienische Keramik (Munich, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf, 1953), X Triennale Milan, 1954, Terra Incognita: Italy’s Ceramic Revival, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, 2009, A Chronicle of Modern Crafts, Kyoto, 2022, Il segno e la forma, Museo Guerrino Tramonti, Faenza, 1923.