Staccioli then set up his own studiocum-workshop in Scandicci on the outskirts of Florence, where he continued under his own steam to experiment on a daily basis with the use of fire and of copper oxides, producing a vast range of vases which he then decorated with imaginary figurative narratives fixed for eternity by an enamel sheen.‎ These works earned him his first true recognition and success at personal and collective exhibitions as well as at important cultural events: his ceramics with their strong metallic effect and sparkling enamel finish soon won praise for their elegance and originality not only in Florentine art circles but throughout the country.‎ The characters that populated the surfaces of his ceramics in this phase (merry-go-rounds with toy horses suspended in midair accompanied by winged putti, trumpet players, dolls and Pulcinellas) soon acquired a third dimension, translating into sculptures yet without losing their fairy-tale aura, their extraneity to all notion of time or place: idealized shapes reminiscent of pre-Roman statuary (of Etruscan sculpture in particular), to which the polychromy of ceramic added a vigorous effect of contrasting masses.‎ Warriors, travellers, cardinals and horses soon joined the already varied throng of imaginary figures and began, in the second half of the 1990s, to add their lively touch to major public and private collections both in Italy and abroad.‎

Born in Florence in 1943, Paolo Staccioli began his experience as an artist in the seventies, making his debut as a painter and soon making himself known locally. At the beginning of the nineties the need to experiment with new expressive languages ​​pushes him to Faenza, in the workshop of a local ceramist, Umberto Santandrea, where he learns the techniques of this art. It is here that Staccioli realizes his first vases, first with the glazed ceramic technique, then experimenting with "reduction" cooking, which allows him to obtain extraordinary effects of iridescence and shine.
Having obtained absolute mastery of the craft, Staccioli sets up a laboratory in his Scandicci studio, near Florence, where he continues to independently and daily measure himself against the use of fire and copper oxides, giving life to a myriad of vases that he covers with fantastic pictorial tales, definitively fixed by the glazing luster.
Among the most recent experiences are the participation in the exhibition Memories of the Ancient in the art of the twentieth century held in 2009 at the Museo degli Argenti in Palazzo Pitti in Florence and personal exhibitions in Washington at the Italian Embassy (April 2009), in Paris at the Selective Art Gallery (September 2009), in New York at the Spazio 522 and at the Kens' Art Gallery in Florence (both in the spring of 2010). In September 2010 one of his staff was held in Pomarance, where soon a bronze warrior will be placed in front of the town hall.

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