Antonio Ricci - Fallacious Illusions 225

Born in 1943 in the province of Frosinone, he lives and works in Riano, near Rome. While always passionate about drawing and all figurative art, for many years he was completely absorbed in his professional work as an engineer at the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome. Only in the mid-1990s did he begin to dedicate himself consistently to painting. A skilled figurative artist, his expressive power is based on a solid and long-standing practice in drawing, in whose expressive techniques he was trained during his high school years by Maestro Franco Verroca. In his ongoing search for his own forms of pictorial language, as a self-taught artist, he did not frequent art galleries or painting exhibitions until 2009. Having developed his own artistic ideas, he began exhibiting with the "Cento Pittori Via Margutta" Association in Rome. He then continued, to the unanimous acclaim of the public and critical acclaim, with a growing number of participations in art events and high-profile artistic competitions, receiving important recognition. In 2012, he joined the prestigious Accademia di San Lazzaro, chaired by art critic Daniele Radini Tedeschi.

Quotes and reviews of his works can be found in art publications:

• “Contemporary Art Itineraries - From Crisis to Figuration through the 2011 Rome Triennale,” edited by D. Radini Tedeschi
• “The Golden Book of Contemporary Art” edited by S. Valeri and S. Rossi
• “Silent Salento” edited by Pompea Vergaro
• Catalogue “Turin-Lecce to Luxor” edited by Gianna Stomeo and Nicola Tatullo
• “L'Elite” 2014 catalog, special 40th anniversary issue, “L'Elite” 2015 and “l'Elite 2016

His works are on permanent display at the Pinacoteca of the Stomeo Art Gallery in Martano (LE) and the Pinacoteca of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Luxor (Egypt).

In 2014 his works entered the collection of the MAGMA Civic Museum of Contemporary Art in Roccamonfina (CE)

Since January 2016, one of his works, a 180 x 90 cm diptych titled "Love Can Do Anything," donated to the international non-profit organization "LOVE IS THE SOLUTION," has been on permanent display at the Love Art Gallery in PALO ALTO HILLS (San Francisco), USA. The organization's president is Engineer Nasser Zaghi, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and recipient of the Palme d'Or for his tireless work promoting world peace from the International Confederation of Crusader Knights Guardians of Peace (CCCi Assisi-Malta).

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