Guerrino Tramonti Biography
Guerrino Tramonti (1915 – 1992) is an artist-ceramist who was born in Faenza in 1915. He trained at the “Tommaso Minardi” municipal school of industrial and plastic design and then at the Royal School of Ceramics in Faenza. He began exhibiting at the age of fifteen and participated in numerous art competitions such as the 1st National Ceramics Competition of the City of Faenza. He arrived in the artistic-cultural circles of Rome in the 1940s. In 1951 he opened his studio in Via Tolosano in Faenza and was appointed plastic teacher at the Civita Castellana School of Art. Appointed Director of the School of Art for Ceramics of Castelli d'Abruzzo in 1953, he created with various collaborators the "Third Heaven", a grandiose gabled ceiling awarded at the X Triennale in Milan. He then directs the Art School of Cagli and the State Art Institute of Forlì. Until the 1950s, he remained close to the most qualified Roman milieu, with personalities such as Libero De Libero, Leonardo Sinisgalli, Prince Massimo, and the art publisher De Luca, who in 1956 published his monograph in the “Artisti d 'Today". Furthermore, his assiduous frequenting of artists such as Arturo Martini, whom he met in Liguria in 1938, Filippo de Pisis in Venice, where he lived from 1944 to 1947, and Franco Gentilini, is well known. After his first school studies, Tramonti has always conducted his creative research as a self-taught person, outside the academic canons, broadening his horizons from sculpture to painting as well as ceramics, architecture and various forms of applied arts, always connecting the most high levels of art to everyday life, in line with the climate of "synthesis of the arts" of the time. Guerrino Tramonti died in Faenza in 1992. The Guerrino Tramonti APS Museum is dedicated to him, in Faenza in the urban stretch of the Via Emilia, active thanks to the Foundation established in his name.
