Romano Vio


Romano Vio was an Italian sculptor. He was born in Venice and taught sculpture there.

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There are many other works that cannot be dated.
There are countless portraits, small bronzes and medals in galleries and private collections in Italy and abroad. There are also numerous works of which only a photographic record remains.
The critics have always been intrigued by his incomparable technical skill and by the poetic pathos of his works, always predisposed to sense or share the sometimes metaphorical lofty meanings that at times interact in many of Vio’s works, inevitably kindling irrepressible intellectual forays.
Vio was neither the first nor the only person to perceive that “classic” is and remains one of the fundamental problems of modern culture, where the artist’s dilemma is to break away from or commit to tradition. Vio was aware of this, continues classicism but has the ability to break away from the logical dualism of reality. He no longer appears interested in the gnoseological content of classic but rather in the human side; therefore Vio is an ethical figurative leading artist and as such forms part of the great Italian tradition, from Donatello to Canova. He has the knowledge to reform that tradition in a difficult and contradictory century to bring us to a unique concept of beauty but he surpasses classic classicism in the sense that art is immune to stylistic pre-conditions. His art becomes a testimony understood as awareness of the value and order of events, sublimely demonstrated in the Giordano works in Foggia.