Born in Zurich in 1965. His artistic career takes its starting point from the poetics of the Metaphysical school of Giorgio de Chirico and Alberto Savinio, yet reinvents its foundations according to a completely original personal interpretation. In his research, he proceeds through moments of contemplation and metaphysical silences, contrasted with nocturnal and intimately troubled expressiveness, where the detachment from the silent immobility that inhabits the canvases of the Pictor Optimus is clearly felt. His works therefore appear as stages where the objects present are bearers of oneiric symbolism. Ciro Palumbo is not only a painter, but in fact a poet who reflects, acts and composes to combine metaphors on the elusiveness of time and the incommensurability of space, thus demonstrating his ability to deepen his observation not so much of nature, but of the imaginative impressions that come from memory. A curious researcher and scholar, he has also been working for some years on the theme of Myth, interpreting classical mythology in an exquisitely modern key, and giving it a deeply cultured and suggestive interpretation. The artist thus manages to sublimate and contextualise ancient myths in spaces outside of time, demonstrating their contemporaneity. His training as an advertising graphic designer led him to work for years as an Art Director in advertising agencies in Turin. It was during this path that he discovered and expanded his visual and compositional skills. Subsequently, experience in a modern art workshop and the knowledge of some contemporary masters led him to deepen his technique of oil painting with glazing. In recent years, the artist has also successfully dedicated himself to sculpture, giving three-dimensionality through terracotta to the topos of his poetics. Palumbo began his exhibition activity in 1994, and has about a hundred solo exhibitions throughout Italy to his credit. In 2011, he participated in the 54th Venice Biennale, Piedmont Pavilion. In recent years, several important venues have hosted his works, including the Domitian Stadium in Rome with the exhibition ‘The strenght of gods and heroes’ and the multi-art event ‘Homo Viator. The Visionary Poet', the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence with the exhibition ’Renaissance. Painting, a secret not yet revealed’, the Museo civico di Palazzo della Penna in Perugia with the exhibition ’Rinascenza. An awakening for the soul’, the Bourbon Prison of the Aragonese Castle in Ischia with the exhibition ’Palumbo - Fellini. Immaginario surreale tra pittura e cinema’, the Palazzo della Cultura in Catania with the exhibition “Isole migranti”, the Sala Colonnato of the Palazzo della Città in Bari with the exhibition “Il volo del Poeta visionario”, the MAUTO Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile in Turin and the Castello Carlo V in Monopoli with the exhibition “Sguardi eterni tra la terra e il cielo”, the Museo Piaggio in Pontedera (Pi) with the exhibition “Homo Viator”. International exhibitions include the presence at Artexpo in New York, Context Art Miami, solo exhibitions in Providence (USA) and in Switzerland in Bellinzona. Some of Palumbo's works are present in the collection of the ‘Fondazione Credito Bergamasco’, at the ‘Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna G. Sciortino' in Monreale (Pa), at the MACIST Museum in Biella, at the Palazzo della Cultura and at the MACS in Catania. Angelo Crespi, Alberto Agazzani, Flaminio Gualdoni, Alessandra Redaelli, Aldo Nove, Ivan Quaroni, Luca Nannipieri, Roberto Capitanio, Angelo Mistrangelo, Tommaso Paloscia, Alessandra Frosini, Alberto D'Atanasio, Stefania Bison, Francesca Bogliolo, Paolo Levi and Vittorio Sgarbi have written about his artistic production. His works have been published in important yearbooks and magazines, and some paintings are in institutional and private collections in Italy and abroad. He currently lives and works in Turin.