Ceramist, sculptor and painter

摘要

Having graduated in Ceramic art at the State Institute of Art in Vibo Valentia, he attended the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Reggio Calabria. As a founding member of the Lamezia Archaeological Association and subsequently of "Magazzini Voltaire" (1986) as well as of the "Angelo Savelli Artecontemporanea" Center in Lamezia Terme (1993), he has contributed to preserving the fragile historical fabric and memorial structure of his territory, as well as producing and promoting events which brought him into contact with regional and national artistic realities. He has collaborated, as a designer, with the Archaeological Superintendence of Calabria, for which he has created precious works of historical reconstruction of ancient ceramic artefacts. In the evolution of his creative work, the 70s and 80s constitute a fertile season of research and experimentation suspended between painting and sculpture, with an attentive eye to all the linguistic elements offered by the artistic panorama of the moment, that was in full innovative ferment. Around 1990 he began to take an almost exclusive interest in ceramic sculpture. During these years he met and befriended Angelo Savelli, an exchange that contributed positively to Saladino's artistic growth. In fact, he matured and experimented with new modes of expression and ways of working, researching lightness of matter through ceramics while fully developing the strong spiritual component already inherent in his sculptural work.