Riccardo Guarneri “Invisible Synchronism”

Rosai Ugolini Modern

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Rosai Ugolini Modern presents a solo exhibition by Florentine artist Riccardo Guarneri. Long considered one of the cornerstones of the Italian Pittura Analitica movement, Guarneri’s body of work reveals a deep investigation into the very syntax of painting. “Invisible Synchronism” will feature an expansive selection of works spanning from the early 60’s to the present.

Characterized by images suspended in space, penetrating gestures, chromatic vapors, and ethereal lights, Guarneri’s paintings contain no recognizable elements, as the artist constructs rarefied atmospheres in harmony with the lightness of the invisible. The almost white canvases are readable through prolonged observation that provokes a refinement of perception. The colors are a result of luminous and variable transparencies that transform into “color-lights”. Delicate, copious gestures are the very impression of imperceptible movements of the wrist. Art historian and critic Claudio Cerritelli describes Guarneri’s adherence to a geometric language and his structural experiments as evoking “a musical correlation between colors and sounds that allows for a variation of elements to be repeated infinitely. Temporal sequences are contained in the slightest of tones, barely perceptible transitions within the rhythm of the composition.” The works possess a natural tension as the geometric structures continuously confront a light that consumes and unravels them.

Riccardo Guarneri (Florence, 1933) began his career as a painter in 1953 and had his first solo exhibition in 1960 in The Hague, Netherlands. In 1963 the artist co-founded the Time 3 group, defined as the “third time” of Abstract Art after Abstract Geometry and Informal Art, placing him as one of the pioneers and more prominent representatives of the Italian Pittura Analitica movement. In 1966 Guarneri participated in the XXXIII Venice Biennale alongside Agostino Bonalumi and Paolo Scheggi, and later that year was featured in the exhibition Weiss auf Weiss at Kunstalle Bern, Switzerland. He was selected to exhibit at the 5th Paris Biennial in the “Nuove Proposte” (Emerging Artists) group, and at the Rome Quadrennial, 1973 and 1985 editions.

Guarneri has been the recipient of numerous national awards including the Premios Michetti, Silvestro Lega, Praga, Jhlava, Firenze, among others. In 2000 he was commissioned to create a 260 sqf mosaic for the city of Rome’s subway system. As a professor of painting, he has taught at the National Art Institute of Florence, and at the Accademie di Belle Arti of Bari, Carrara, Florence, and Venice.
The artist has been the subject of over one hundred international solo exhibitions, including anthologies at Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany (1972); Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy (2004); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Senigallia, Italy (2011). Guarneri lives and works in Florence.

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from December 12, 2015 to February 21, 2016

Opening Reception on 2015-12-12 from 18:00 to 20:00

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