SERGIO RICCARDI Italy

- Travel notes... -

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

Venice

Tunisian Artifacts

china on paper cm 33 x 47.5

china on paper 42 x 30 cm

Tunisian jewelry

Pyrgi

ink on paper cm 42 x 30

china on paper cm 42 x 30

Sabaudia

Pomegranates

ink on paper cm 18 x 24

acrylic and ink 42 x 30 cm

His Biography

Sergio Riccardi, born in Orte (VT) in 1948. Diploma as Industrial Expert. Professional activity carried out at the National Research Council in Milan and Rome. Due to his great passion for horses, together with his family he created the Allevamento Tevere Farm, successfully breeding thoroughbred racehorses; later he obtained a trainer's license issued by the Italian Jockey Club and successfully trained thoroughbred racehorses under the colors of his New Life Stable. His passion for art and painting has accompanied him up to today, 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 color tones and their harmony stand out. It is a painting in motion where the vanishing point can be recognized in a perhaps unusual place: at the bottom, on the right margin[1] (the right margin of the painting represents the paternal, the social, the world). From there, an explosion of colors travels towards another, opposite dimension. They seem like flocks in motion, beating wings that intertwine, as if magnetically attracted from Above, towards the luminous left margin (the maternal, the return and the search for origins).

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

Letters intertwine over the skillfully spread colors. Writing is an identifying sign of the person and even the choice to write the letters in the Block Letter[2] style, instead of in Cursive[3] tells us of a desire to detach, not to conform, a need to take a different position in the face of what others call "reality," a desire to fly higher and a will to achieve. Block letter writing 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 seems almost like a magic formula, a message in a code addressed to those who know how to read beyond appearances.

Block letter writing is a super-individual, collective choice, not imposed from above, by culture, by society.

It is as if at a certain point there was a need to break with the rules of the past; to establish new ones, outside the schemes of Female-Male, 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 observe from above, like a bird's-eye view, the environment and ourselves.

Graphologist Dr. Pier Paola Papalini

[1] Pulver M. – The symbology of writing, Ed Boringhieri, 1983

[2] The style of handwriting with separated letters that imitates print characters

[3] Calligraphic model acquired in primary school characterized by the literal connection and which lends itself easily to acceleration. Social conformity.

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