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Gian Carlo Riccardi

Italian painter, sculptor, theatre director and writer

Gian Carlo Riccardi (October 21, 1933 - February 7, 2015) was an Italian artist, painter, theatre director, sculptor and writer.[1]

Gian Carlo Riccardi
Born(1933-10-21)21 October 1933
Frosinone, Italy
Died7 February 2015(2015-02-07) (aged 81)
Frosinone, Italy
EducationAcademy of Fine Arts of Rome Experimental Centre of Rome
Websitewww.giancarloriccardi.com

Biography

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Gian Carlo Riccardi was born on October 21, 1933 in Frosinone, Italy. His father, Armando Riccardi, was a lawyer and his mother, Rosa Amati, was a pianist. In 1961 Gian Carlo Riccardi graduated with honors in scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome[2] in via Ripetta.[3] Furthermore, during the academic period Riccardi was a pupil of Toti Scialoja and Mario Rivosecchi. After a few years, he obtained a diploma in Theater and Film Direction at the Experimental Center of Rome.

 
The artist Gian Carlo Riccardi (left) and the art critic Enrico Crispolti (centre). Theatrical show "Why Lorca" 1977, Teatro Spazio Uno, Rome.

He has been defined by the art critic Enrico Crispolti[4] as a «multimedia artist»[5] and has frequented writers and artists such as Achille Bonito Oliva,[6] Alberto Moravia, Cesare Zavattini, Filiberto Menna, Giuseppe Bonaviri and Vito Riviello.[7] Writers and journalists such as Angelo Maria Ripellino, Elio Pagliarani, Mario Lunetta and André Pieyre de Mandiargues[8] have also written about him.

 
Gian Carlo Riccardi (right) with Libero De Libero (below) and Cesare Zavattini (left), 1977.

Between the 60s and 70s he worked as a set designer and director at Rai and as assistant to set designers Carlo Cesarini from Senigallia and Giorgio Aragno.[9] He is also editor of satirical magazines such as Il Travaso delle Idee, Marc'Aurelio, La Tribuna Illustrata, Simplicissimus and Il Borghese. He is part of the Roman Theater Avant-garde collaborating with Pino Pascali, Carmelo Bene,[10] Mario Ricci, Memè Perlini and others.[11]

These experiences lead him to open in Frosinone,[12] in 1961, the Visual Arts Laboratory Theater Group and later, in 1962, the Theater Club[13] where he sets up, with various actors, artistic performances and shows theatrical.

He takes part in events such as: the Teatro da Voi 1977 at the Spazio Uno theater in Rome, the New Theater Week (1978) and the 1984 Incontri at the Centro Associazione Stampa Grattacielo in Milan.

The director's shows and performances are based on gestures and the need to express the condition of contemporary man, imprisoned in the daily routine and in the contradictions of life.

In 1997 he founded the Theater of the Image.

 
Gian Carlo Riccardi and the actors of the Teatro Laboratorio Arti Visive, 1974.

Riccardi's pictorial production deals with various themes such as the grotesque, the double, irony, but also the world of childhood, through drawing, caricature and abstract painting. The latter is achieved through the use of collage and ready-made.[14] His works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad such as the ArtExpo exhibition in Geneva (1984),[15] the British Art Fair in the City of London (1985 ), the Center International D'art Contemporain in Paris (1988),[16] the Kodama Gallery in Osaka (1993) and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona (1999 ).[17]

In his sculptures Gian Carlo Riccardi uses poor materials such as plexiglas, paper, wood and iron.[18]

The Rooms,[19] built since the 80s,[20] are installations always made with simple and recycled elements (mainly wood and iron).[21] These are examples of site specific works[22] capable of building a dialogue with the surrounding space and with the observer.[23]

Riccardi exhibited his installations at the European Parliament in 1991, at the XLV Venice Biennale of Art[24] in 1993, and at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto in 1995.[25]

He writes theatrical scripts, prose and poetic texts.[26] In the latter various themes emerge (already addressed in the pictorial, theatrical and sculptural fields) concerning the surreal, the improbable and the memory.[27]

Gian Carlo Riccardi disappeared on February 7, 2015 in his hometown.[28]

References

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  1. ↑ M. R. Testa, New Art 2000, Casalpusterlengo, New Art Promotion, 2000, p.88.
  2. ↑ "Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma".
  3. ↑ Roccasecca, Pietro (2018). Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma : centoquaranta anni di istruzione superiore dell'arte in Italia. De Luca Editori d'Arte. ISBN 978-88-6557-395-2. OCLC 1085693552.
  4. ↑ Crispolti, Enrico (1978). Fernando Rea (Carte segrete ed.). Roma.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ↑ S. Perdicaro, L'élite 2004. Selezione arte italiana, Varese, L'elite, 2004, p. 587.
  6. ↑ "L'artista Gian Carlo Riccardi sull'Enciclopedia Treccani" (in Italian).
  7. ↑ "Frosinone, l'artista d'avanguardia Riccardi inserito nella Treccani" (in Italian). 2023-06-02.
  8. ↑ "Gian Carlo Riccardi, storia del disincanto e del rifiuto". 2021-04-09.
  9. ↑ Castellani, F. (2002). Atlante dell'arte italiano. Catanzaro: Carello Editore. p. 151.
  10. ↑ "Frosinone – Il prof. Riccardi citato sulla prestigiosa enciclopedia Treccani | TG24.info" (in Italian). 2023-05-25.
  11. ↑ Gian Carlo Riccardi. 1960-2001. Roma: Romart Service. p. 185-196.
  12. ↑ "Comune di Frosinone - La Saletta delle Arti" (in Italian).
  13. ↑ "Comune di Frosinone - Teatro Club" (in Italian).
  14. ↑ Bevilacqua, Antonio (1962). Arte e poesia in terra ciociara. Convivio letterario. OCLC 898505205.
  15. ↑ Pieyre, André. Presentazione in catalogo, Rassegna d’arte ArtExpo di Ginevra. Ginevra.
  16. ↑ Gian Carlo Riccardi. 1960-2001. Roma: Romart Service. 2001. p. 185-196.
  17. ↑ "Riccardi, Gian Carlo nell'Enciclopedia Treccani" (in Italian).
  18. ↑ Baldazzi, Cinzia; Riccardi, Gian Carlo (1989). Perlagrigio. Frosinone: RomArt90. pp. 1–5.
  19. ↑ Riviello, Vito; Riccardi, Gisn Carlo (1986). Gian Carlo Riccardi: la stanza del padre. Frosinone: La Tipografica. OCLC 955258616.
  20. ↑ V. Riviello, Dizionario Enciclopedico d’Arte Contemporanea, Roma, Unedi, 1998.
  21. ↑ "Chi era Costui - Scheda di Gian Carlo Riccardi".
  22. ↑ Perelli, Lorenza (2017). Arte che non sembra arte : arte pubblica, pratiche artistiche nella vita quotidiana e progetto urbano. Franco Angeli. ISBN 978-88-917-5189-8. OCLC 1006413073.
  23. ↑ Birozzi, Carlo; Pugliese, Marina (2007). L'arte pubblica nello spazio urbano : committenti, artisti, fruitori. B. Mondadori. ISBN 978-88-6159-018-2. OCLC 494724609.
  24. ↑ "La Biennale di Venezia" (in Italian). 2017-02-20.
  25. ↑ "Festival dei Due Mondi".
  26. ↑ AA. VV., G. Bonaviri (a cura di), Catalogo degli artisti Lazio, Roma, Unedi, 1979, pp. 273, 274.
  27. ↑ "Comune di Frosinone - Passeggiata nella memoria" (in Italian).
  28. ↑ "ilverdastro.it: Un artista ciociaro conosciuto in ambito nazionale". 2018-10-02.
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