Paolo Giallombardo

Biography

Paolo Giallombardo, an artist of the Albissolese tradition, began his career working with the great ceramist Eliseo Salino, his first teacher; between the fifties and sixties, again in Albisola, Giallombardo got to know and frequent Giovanni Poggi, owner of the “Ceramiche San Giorgio”, Vittorio Agamennone from Verona, the Florentine Becheroni and many other of his colleagues.

These influences are deduced from the artist's style who recalls his youth through the representation of images of birds, courtyard animals, and the characters of the Nativity scene that constitute one of the great traditions of Albissolese ceramics; his creativity, however, does not stop at simple recollection and the figurative, but also gives space to the abstract, with the creation of evocative and highly emotional ceramic plates.

After a pause in which the artist was involved in construction work, his artistic career resumed in 2010 with his first exhibition "Art with ... clay", at the "Circolo degli Artisti", in Albissola Marina, in collaboration with his colleague and friend Giorgio Venturino; the same year the artist exhibited "Christmas with open doors in the Sistine Chapel", in Savona with the artist Aurelia Trapani with whom he will present "A Nativity in the pool", at the municipal swimming pool dedicated to Paolo Zanelli in 2011.

In 2012, in anticipation of the London Olympic Games, Giallombardo was present in the "Casa Italia" of CONI, together with the ceramics of other Italian artists, with a large polychrome panel entitled "When sport becomes art", created at the "Studio Ernan ”, of Albisola Superiore. In December 2014, Giallombardo donated ceramic spheres containing a representation of the Nativity to the representatives in Savona of all the Forces of the Order and a large Nativity scene in the Sistine Chapel. In 2016 the artist donated a large Nativity Scene to the Prefecture of Savona.

In 2017 the artist donated the work "The Value of a Memory" commemorating the Fallen of the "Acqui" division to the municipality of Monastero Bormida.

In 2020 he donates a permanent nativity scene to the State Police of Savona; in the same year he received the honor of knight of the Order "Al Merito della Repubblica Italiana".