 The great season of Girbinian doors, begun in 1973, has not met stasis, indeed in recent years it has appeared very lively for the happy results that the artist has managed to achieve with surprising continuity.
We remember the doors (central and lateral) of the Cathedral of Taormina, that of the mother church of Paceco, the doors made with bronze bas-reliefs of the sanctuary of Sant'Alfio in Trecastagni (1974), the bronze portals of the Sanctuary of San Sebastiano Martire Melilli, the bas-reliefs and stained glass windows of the Parish of St. Francis de Sales in Palermo. And also the monument to the peasants, near the Madonnuzza school in Mazzarino and the door of the convent of the church Madonna del Carmelo (1977) and, last in chronological order, the bronze doors to the church of San Gregorio di Catania. «... Every door is a bet with itself. It may seem rhetorical and it is not, because of its gates Girbino is the artist who draws the sketch and the model that shapes the forms, the building company that builds the framework and the craftsman who assembles the entire work in person. .. »(M. D.)  Girbino's abstractionism does not create contrasts with the environments that host his works that crystallize in essential and balanced forms.
The sculptures of Girbino, writes Gaetano Palumbo, reveal "a space that involves the observer in an active dimension where the complexity of reality and individual tension clarify each other and find a complete coherence." In the photo on the right, the monument by Domenico Girbino in memory of the five Brontians, presumed guilty of massacres and fires in the events of Bronte in 1860, shot by Nino Bixio. It was erected by the Municipality of Bronte at the conclusion of a Conference-trial on the events of 1860, which took place in October 1985, which had a national resonance;
It is placed at the foot of the staircase that leads to the square of the Church of San Vito where, precisely on the morning of August 10, 1860, the shooting of five unfortunate Bronte people took place.
 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.
In the photo above, Mimmo Girbino, awarded in 1987 with the XXIV Casali for sculpture "for having been able to express with his creative art the deepest feelings of the soul". 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. | 
Domenico Girbino, sculptor born in Bronte where he completed his studies. Catanese by adoption, he is a teacher at the Artistic Lyceum of Catania and author of wonderful works such as stained glass, bas-reliefs and sculptures that appear in many squares and at the headquarters of numerous public and private institutions.
