Galleria Giustini / Stagetti and Enrico Camponi are pleased to present the exhibition Guido Gambone. La Faenzerella, dedicated to the brief yet decisive phase in the production of the master of Italian ceramics developed in Vietri sul Mare between 1944–45 and 1949, shortly before his definitive move to Florence.

Following his early experiences from the late 1920s in various ceramic factories in Vietri - shaped through dialogue with the artists of the so-called “German period” from which his distinctive iconographic repertoire derives - Guido Gambone (1909 -1969) entered a new and significant chapter of his career in the mid-1940s.

Between 1944 and 1945, Gambone founded the ceramic workshop La Faenzerella in Vietri together with several partners. The name, literally meaning the little “faenzera”, a term generally used to indicate a ceramics manufacture, reflects his aspiration to work independently and to give full expression to his creative individuality. Within this context, he developed an entirely new repertoire, marked by a more personal and experimental language, while pursuing an in-depht exploration of glazing techniques.

Over those years, although traces of the influence of the “German period” remained, Gambone gradually moved away from them. He experimented with highly personal visual languages, clearly expressing his desire to break free from the conventions of the Vietri tradition. Through remarkable formal and chromatic restraint, combined with great originality, he achieved works of exceptional quality, earning prestigious national recognition.

The production of these years is often marked on the base of the works by the celebrated stylized donkey, accompanied by the inscription VIETRI.

The exhibition presents a corpus of 49 works, the result of thirty years of research.

On the occasion of the exhibition, a catalogue will be published featuring a critical essay by Gilda Cefariello Grosso, which examines the historical and stylistic coordinates of this specific phase of Guido Gambone’s production, presented here for the first time in a monographic exhibition.