by his incomparable technical skill and by the poetic pathos of his works, always predisposed to sense or share the sometimes metaphorical lofty meanings that at times interact in many of Vio’s works, inevitably kindling irrepressible intellectual forays. Vio was neither the first nor the only person to perceive that “classic” is and remains one of the fundamental problems of modern culture, where the artist’s dilemma is to break away from or commit to tradition. Vio was aware of this, and continues classicism but has the ability to break away from the logical dualism of reality. He no longer appears interested in the gnoseological content of classics but rather in the human side; therefore Vio is an ethical figurative leading artist and as such forms part of the great Italian tradition, from Donatello to Canova. He has the knowledge to reform that tradition in a difficult and contradictory century to bring us to a unique concept of beauty but he surpasses classic classicism in the sense that art is immune to stylistic pre-conditions. His art becomes a testimony understood as an awareness of the value and order of events, sublimely demonstrated in the Giordano works in Foggia. References External links Official website 1913 births 1984 deaths Sculptors from Venice 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists Italian male sculptors