SERGIO RICCARDI Italy

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"when I discover and admire new things during my travels, I feel a strong emotion, so I draw and capture the moment".

Venice

Tunisian Finds

China on paper 33 x 47.5 cm

ink on paper cm 42 x 30

Tunisian jewelry

Pyrgi

ink on paper 42 x 30 cm

China on paper cm 42 x 30

Sabaudia

Pomegranates

ink on paper 18 x 24 cm

acrylic and ink cm 42 x 30

His Biography

Sergio Riccardi, born in Orte (VT) in 1948. Diploma as an Industrial Expert. Professional activity carried out at the National Research Council in Milan and Rome. Driven by a great passion for horses, together with his family he founded the Tevere Breeding Farm, successfully raising thoroughbred racehorses; later he obtained a trainer’s licence issued by the Italian Jockey Club and successfully trained thoroughbred racehorses under the colours of his New Life Stable. His passion for art and painting has accompanied him to this day, now that he is retired, and thanks to the Mega Art Gallery he can show his works.

The Critique

"Soul and Writing" acrylic on canvas 80 x 80 cm

At first glance, the richness of the colour tones and their harmony stands out. It is a painting in motion, where the vanishing point can be found in a perhaps unusual place: at the bottom, on the right-hand edge[1] (the right edge of the painting represents the paternal, the social, the world) of the painting. From there starts an explosion of colours that travel towards another, opposite dimension. They look like flocks in motion, wingbeats intertwining, as if magnetically drawn upward, towards the luminous left edge (the maternal, the return and the search for origins).

A clarifying Light lets us glimpse other doors, passages, omens of other kinds of knowledge.

Letters intertwine over the skilfully laid colours. Handwriting is an identifying sign of the person, and even the choice to trace the letters in the Print[2] style, rather than in Cursive[3], speaks of a desire to break away, not to conform, a need to take a different stance in the face of what others call “reality”, a desire to fly higher and a will to fulfil oneself. Print handwriting is a super-individual choice, especially because it is used as an artistic expression, a need to establish new patterns, to look beyond.

This intertwining of consonants almost seems like a magic formula, a message in a code addressed to those who can read beyond appearances.

Print handwriting is a super-individual, collective choice, not imposed from above, by culture, by society.

It is as if, at a certain point, the need was felt to break with the rules of the past; to set new ones, outside the patterns of Feminine-Masculine, of social hierarchies or dictated by age. A will to “see clearly” and to be able to observe the world from the outside, in the impossible attempt to overcome the subjectivity that binds us to our body and to the earth. A need to be able to look from above, as in a bird’s-eye view, at the environment and at ourselves.

Graphologist Dr. Pier Paola Papalini

[1] Pulver M. – The symbolism of handwriting, Ed Boringhieri, 1983

[2] The handwritten print style with separated letters that imitates printed type

[3] calligraphic model learned in primary school, characterised by letter connections and easily suited to speeding up. Social conformity.

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