Domenico Girbino

Domenico Girbino, sculptor born in Bronte, is a teacher at the Artistic Secondary school In Catania.

His glass windows, low relief and sculptures appear in many squares and near several public and private corporations.
Among other works we like to mention the Piazza Europa fountain in Catania, the main doors to some churches of the Annunciated of Catena and some Church Of The Rosary In Bronte, the monument to the fallen of 1860 in Piazza San Vito to Bronte, inaugurated in opportunity of "Trial to Bixio" kept  in Bronte in the October of 1985.

The Girbino abstractionism does not create contrasts with the environments  in which are lodged his works that crystallize in essential and balanced forms.

The Girbino sculptures, Gaetano Palumbo writes, reveal "a space which involves the observer in an active dimension where the complexity of reality and the individual tension clarify to event and find an integral consistency".
 

Mimmo Girbino (left), lawyer Renato Radice (son of historian Benedetto Radice)
with his son Benedetto (at rear) and (to the right) professor Nunzio Sciavarrello,
pictured in 1973 on occasion of the "Exhibition of the Bronte' Artists of yesterday and today", held in the Capizzi College.

The monument, Domenico Girbino work, built in Bronte  in memory of the five brontese presumed culprits of slaughters and fires during the facts of Bronte of 1860, who got shot by Nino Bixio.
It is placed below the steps leading to the square of the San Vito church where, in the morning of August 10th, 1860 the shooting took place. It was built by the Council at the conclusion of a Convegno-processo on the facts of 1860, held in  October of 1985.