The sculptural production of Ciro Fornaro unfolds in different phases, in close analogy with his creative personality: at times he focuses on points of strength, at times on agile spatial movements, on masses, on threadlike structures, on chromatic effects or plastic transparencies. The artwork is conceived to be transmitted and disseminated, assuming its own vitality.

Almost a rejection of the figure in favor of content as a reference to reality itself, through that very negation which presupposes it; in this way, the abstraction of forms becomes a suggestive transformation of reality in its dynamic aspects, without losing the “primitive” value of its figurative origin.

He employs mixtures of various kinds: stoneware, refractory clays, steel-like iron and, moving from a horizontal style of severe and monumental forms, he comes to achieve effects of disruptive verticality. The basic data on which the artist elaborates are events linked to natural organic life (“Fragments”), but also cultural processes (Dolmenhir, Neolithic, Lastracrom, Japygian).

There is a fertile and natural energy in the volumes, in the roughness and in the geometries of the material, all marked by the utmost rigor of essentiality.