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Damiano Taurino 1949 | Italian realist sculptorBorn in 1949 in Galugnano, in the municipality of San Donato di Lecce, the beautiful land of Salento, rich in historical traditions dating back thousands of years to the ancient Greek civilization and messapica (1000 BC). This land, with its historical and cultural heritage, is able to inculcate in the young Damiano, the secret desire of the model, the ability to extract, from a piece of clay, images and figures lovely. At age 16 he emigrated to Switzerland, he settled in Horgen-Zurich and spent a period devoted to education and training. In 1981 he returned to Italy and takes residence in Cesena, where he still lives and works. Here is dedicated, full-time to his passion native, sculpture and, in particular, the modeling of the clay. His artistic work does not follow pre-established guidelines because it is characterized by a strong originality, which is expressed not in abstract forms or impersonal, but concrete and marked by realism alive intense. In figures sculpted by Taurino the observer can grasp movements, attitudes, postures that can communicate the dynamism of modern life, dreams, joys and hopes of which the human soul is the bearer