Gres Bowl Bruno Gambone Italy 1970's

Decorated stoneware bowl, the center decorated with a black glaze and on the rim a decoration with alternating parallel brushstrokes in green and manganese signed Gambone Italy. Bruno Gambone was born in Vietri sul Mare (Salerno) in 1936. As a young man, from 1950 onwards, he devoted himself to ceramics and gained experience in the Florentine studio of his father Guido, one of the greatest Italian ceramists of the 20th century. At his beginnings in 1960, he moved to New York, where he frequented Rauschenberg, Nevelson, Stella, Lichtenstein and Warhol. In addition to painting and sculpture, work is also in theater and cinema. In 1968 he returned to Italy and settled in Milan, a city renowned for contemporary art. The following year, after the death of his father, Gambone returned to Florence, devoting himself exclusively to ceramics. I participated in numerous exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale and the Milan Triennale. He passed away in Florence in 2021.