Giacomo Del Giudice

Giacomo Del Giudice

Biography

Giacomo Del Giudice was born in Florence in 1970.
He started working at the age of 14 at the foundry of his paternal grandfather and father, who as a good old-fashioned craftsman tried to pass on to him such a noble art as bronze.
Since 2010 he has owned of the Del Giudice Artistic Foundry in Greve in Chianti together with his sister.
In 2002 he taught a course in Casting Techniques at the University of Munster in Germany.
While working and following the creation of the works of Italian and international artists, he makes works that are expressions of his own thought and does not lose his creative vein by making them with the "poorest" materials of the foundry.
Imagination and poetry, through a long personal experience on the materials and techniques acquired in the family workshop, come together to give life to very personal works inspired by a careful observation of nature and the world. In fact, he creates several series of works inspired both by the sea and his relationship with it, and by cycling and the sense of freedom that this sport inspires in him.
He has worked for the Duomo of Florence, modeling and placing a beautiful bronze lectern under Brunelleschi's Dome, has made the Pegaso of the Region of Tuscany and many "Masgalani" for the Palio of Siena several times, and has reproduced Pio Fedi's Christ for the Vatican Museums.

"I started working as a boy with my grandfather and father. Unfortunately I am not and will never be at their level, however I do this work with passion. I look for simplicity and poetry, because I think that unfortunately they are slowly, slowly disappearing. For the past few years, after a long time hanging out with artists, I have matured my own form of sculpture, with which I talk about my passion for the sea and nature in general."