Massimo Riccò - African sunset

#collectorscorner Unique artwork, directly from the artist's studio. Dimensions 60x70 cm, thickness 2 cm, made on pure cotton canvas mounted on a spruce wooden frame, entirely crafted in Italy. The work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity personally signed by the artist, with central hanger, final protective varnish, ready to hang. Massimo Riccò was born in Modena in 1961, where he currently lives and works. Towards the end of the 1990s, he entered the art world, drawing with pencils, charcoal, and sanguines, but soon moved to color through oil and acrylic techniques. After an initial impressionist landscape approach, predominantly figurative, over the years there has been a steady evolution toward breaking form, entrusting color with the task of giving the work strength and dynamism. A constant quest for subjects of diverse nature and the study of different materials to use to make the artistic language effective remains. For years he has been involved, in addition to producing art, in teaching painting, trying to stimulate creativity and personal interpretation, a recurring challenge in line with his vision of art. In addition to countless exhibitions, shows, and recognitions, he can count a high number of national awards. Web: www.massimoricco.eu Mail: massimo.ric61@gmail.com Some of the numerous critical texts by art experts: Measure and proportion mark Riccò's works which, never betraying his careful study of compositional rhythms, allow the eye of the viewer color intervals of intense emotional impact. The potential of chroma, of which the artist demonstrates absolute knowledge, orchestrates a rhythm that alternates balance and contrast, sharing the very nature of light, static yet vibrant at the same time … The viewer thus becomes a witness to a process, to an alchemy, that transforms the reality contained in the works into abstract fields, sometimes more generously than others. The passion of the moment, of that encounter between heart and reality, is generously revealed by an artist who does not spare his observer from what happened: Massimo Riccò's poetry reveals the maturity and awareness of someone who has something to tell and cannot do anything but entrust it to the canvas. (Margherita Fraccon – Museum Educator, contemporary art expert) Between nature and imagination, reality and abstraction of the real, runs the splendid painting of Massimo Riccò. Sensations frozen in their evocative moment and precious instants merge in color and light in a painting tied to expressionist art in its emotional vigor, where pathos flows in chromaticism that progresses toward immediate painterly gesture … (Carla d’Aquino Mineo) Riccò injects into his works a color capable of welcoming minimal variations, difficult pairings. This shows that he has achieved, in the course of his artistic activity, mastery and confidence in his expressive means. The exquisite sensitivity of Riccò is revealed by the themes he favors, making them participants in a reality where there are always qualities and intonation, and this to show that from the very beginning there is sobriety and seriousness of intent, the ultimate purpose… We can still speak of fantastic visions, or at times of the day what surrounds man is truly fantastic as in the Maestro Riccò's paintings? The answer lies in originality and the leap in quality that earns the artist a place among those personalities who deserve attention precisely for the ability to exalt the soul that lies beyond the appearance of things. Riccò loves painting and paints with great passion, thus he tells what his eyes see and what his poetic nature suggests to him. He paints canvases that are admired with great pleasure, for the taste of beauty, the confidence in dosing lights and shadows, which are nothing more than the moment's emotions, expressed with a strong personal character, as effective as ever, together with his generous soul, not devoid of exuberant imagination, but contained within the boundaries of good taste. People will talk about him. (the critics of the MC art studio – Livio Collina Foundation) Massimo Riccò's painting emerges as a light harmony that slowly approaches from his nuances toward more solid elements, appearing ever closer to us, and initially confusing the viewer only a little. Thus the image, in its immediate almost abstract reading, gains figurative substance, increasingly amplifying, and giving the depicted image, all its painting reality. Two realities overlap without cancelling each other out, fusing in a graphic and chromatic symbiosis. From bold foreground colors, we gradually move to a well-defined figurative reality, the soul of the image and rich in gentleness. Faded subjects, but very precise, apparently vague but constructive images, indispensable to the balance of the canvas. Beautiful glimpses appear as if from an uncertain ether, but gradually built with strength and confidence. The chromaticity is strong and well distributed. Lights and shadow areas build volumes and distances, which perspective harmonizes. The depicted buildings are from different periods and the landscapes express vast areas. All emerges from a pale chromatic mist, which builds an immense breath … (Enrico Miglioli) Mastering the means of painting, its techniques, its seductions, and then mixing it all again into an extremely original and evocative vision. Massimo Riccò manages to astonish again with a figurative timbre that at first seemed to have said everything, seemed to have expressed everything, except this delicate painting, which challenges vision on multiple overlapping planes, in touches of color masterfully targeted… (Silvia Arfelli)

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