Paolo Staccioli

Italy, 1943

Paolo Staccioli dedicates to painting since his adolescence and shows his works for the first time in 1973.

At the end of the 80s he begins his first experiences with ceramic, on bas-relieves in terracotta.

Afterwards he focuses on the experiments of glazes and, through the oxygen reduction firing, under the guidance of the master-craftsman from Faenza, Umberto Santandrea, he started his research on lustres, employing clays, oxides and salts.

Continuing on this path, he decides to give up with painting and transfers his subjects upon vases and other ceramic supports.

This was followed by his early plastic experiments leading him in 2000 to model a great bronze horse, which opened the Park Museum of Poggio Valicaia in Scandicci.

He counts group and solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad, such as at the Museum of Porcelains in Palazzo Pitti, at the Archaeological Museum in Fiesole and at the Museum Ginori in Florence, participations to art fairs in Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium.