The name of Guido Gambone drives the fame of Italian post-war ceramics.

 

Born near Avel lino in Campania, his family moved after the First World War to the famous ceramics town of Vietri sul Mare, then home of the so-called German School and a hotbed of artistic research that influenced Gambone’s aesthetic language throughout his life. He made his debut as a decorator for the Avallone workshop and soon his works were present in various factories in Vietri at the important exhibitions of the Triennale Biennale of Monza/Milan, before parti cipating individually in the Triennale of 1940 and 1947. That same year he also won his first Faenza Prize, one of six until 1961. This period also marks the artist’s turn to exploring many aspects of modern and contemporary art.

 

His growing national and international fame after World War II coincided with Gambone’s move to Florence in 1950, where he opened his laboratory. That same year he also participated in the XXV Venice Biennale (1950), followed by the Triennials (1951-1960), prestigious solo exhibitions (Il Milione Gallery, 1951; Strozzina Gallery 1954) and exhibitions abroad, including Italy at Work. Her Renaissance in Design Today, which traveled to 12 museums in the USA between 1950 and 1953, Modern Italian Ceramics (Munich, Stuttgart Düsseldorf, 1953), Expo Brussels (Silver Medal 1958), World Exhibition New York (1958), International Contemporary Ceramics exhibition in Prague (Gold Medal 1962) and many others​