Works on Paper
- Artists
- Riccardo Guarneri
- Venue
- Galleria artesilva, via San Rocco 64/66, Seregno
Works on Paper
‘LA MIA CARTA’
Paper has to be loved. It has to be loved in order to be understood, otherwise it is better to use canvas, wood, plaster, plexiglass, aluminium, etc.…
Paper holds many surprises in itself; it is not only a question of coarse or fine grain, smooth or rough, but above all of its capacity to answer watercolour, pencil, pastel. The kinds of paper one can use are countless and countless are the effects that can be obtained. Knowing how to choose the right kind of paper means coming close to the result one wants. Paper is fragile and must be worked in transparency and with delicacy.
It answers your way of working… paper is female.
The surface with its weave must always remain visible through the laying on of colour, because it takes part in the painting itself with its softness and its tissue-like quality.
Riccardo Guarneri
Florence, October 2007
Short biography:
Born in 1933 in Florence, where he still lives and works, Riccardo Guarneri began to paint in 1953 and held his first solo exhibition in The Hague in 1960. He took part in the Venice Biennale of 1966, in the Paris Biennale of 1967 in the “Nuove Proposte” section, and in the Rome Quadriennale of 1973. He has received numerous prizes (Michetti, Silvestro Lega, Fiorino, Termoli, Acireale, Prague, Jhlava, Fiesole, Taranto, Capo d’Orlando, Florence, etc.).
He has taught painting at the Accademie di Belle Arti of Carrara, Bari, Venice and Florence. His works are held in various museums of modern and contemporary art, Italian (Florence, Turin, Livorno, Pisa, Cagliari, Taranto, Lissone, Capo d’Orlando, Sarzana, San Gimignano, Parma, Genoa, Conegliano Veneto, Venice) as well as foreign (Münster, Düsseldorf, New York – Guggenheim).
In 2000 he made the design for a 24 sq. m. mosaic which is in the “Lucio Sestio” station of the Rome underground.
