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Giuseppe Gambino (1928 – 1997) was born in Sicily, in Vizzini, in 1928 and following his father, a Fine Arts official, he lived for a long time between Veneto and Emilia. Around 1944, as a painter, he began to dedicate himself to art, while hiding with his family in the Modena Apennines, which had become the scene of bloody clashes between Germans and partisans. Read the full biography

Giuseppe Gambino (1928 – 1997) was born in Sicily, in Vizzini, in 1928 and following his father, a Fine Arts official, he lived for a long time between Veneto and Emilia. Around 1944, as a painter, he began to dedicate himself to art, while hiding with his family in the Modena Apennines, which had become the scene of bloody clashes between Germans and partisans. After the horrors and atrocities of the war, Giuseppe Gambino will be in Bologna in the early fifties, where he will meet and collaborate with the painter Nino Caffè, then engaged in advertising for Enrico Mattei's ENI. He thus oriented his painting towards an increasingly marked two-dimensional synthesis of figures, buildings and landscapes. After his move to Venice in 1954, he completed his training by following the courses of the Scuola Libera di Nudo at the Academy and attracted by the extraordinary cultural environment of the Serenissima, he began in the meantime to create his unmistakable Venetian Landscapes. The horizon in which Gambino's work must be placed is within that current, that attempt, implemented in Europe after the Second World War, to give an account of the new ways of feeling, without losing the meaning and multiple richness of the figurative tradition, through the strengthening of the different representative components. For this Gambino will carry out a significant strengthening of the linear components to the point of practicing a real structural cloisonnism of a Gothic matrix which will be accompanied by a dense color that is gradually brighter and more focused. Among others, Giuseppe Mazzariol, Umbro Apollonio, Virgilio Guidi, Guido Perocco, Giuseppe Sciortino, Renato Guttuso, Evan Hunter, Alfonso Gatto, Guido Costantini, Luigina Rossi Bortolatto, Alberto Gianquinto have written about him. Pietro Zampetti, Paolo Rizzi, Ennio Concina, Nico Stringa, Ennio Pouchard. There are countless personal and collective exhibitions in which he participated both nationally and internationally from 1954 to 1989. In particular the Venice Biennale in '56, the Rome Art Quadrennial in 1959. From 1954 to 1963 he lived in Venice dedicating himself to painting. In 1963, with his family, he moved to Preganziol (Tv) where he passed away in 1997.