Painter
Riccardo Riccardi began painting as a child, long before he devoted
himself to music. When he first started studying composition, in the
1970’s, he was already producing abstract paintings. In the following
decade he focused on music, but in the early 1990’s returned to
painting, balancing his creative interests as an artist with his
musical activities. In the period from 1991 to 1995 he studied with
Florentine scene designer, Ferdinando Ghelli, to learn the general
principles of the technique of drawing.
In 1997 at the Teatro
dei Leggieri of San Gimignano, Riccardi mounted his first exhibition in
conjunction with a performance of his chamber opera,
L’Avvenimento. Then in 2001 at the Accent Centre in Paris, he presented a show entitled,
Casanova’s Story, followed that same year by
Le isole,
an exhibition of paintings with surrounding sound, staged at the Rocca
Aldobrandesca in Piancastagnaio, Siena. His artistic activity was again
showcased in 2002 with a show in Rimini,
Ognuno di noi è più d’uno, and ended, for the time being, in 2004 with two events,
Specchio at the Vittoriano in Rome and Snippets at the Corin Gallery in Towson – Maryland.
L’AVVENIMENTO
Viaggio per immagini | May 1997
CASANOVA'S STORY
Painting exhibition | May 2001
LE ISOLE
Painting exhibition with surrounding sound | December 2001 -
6 January 2002
OGNUNO DI NOI È PIÙ D'UNO
Painting exhibition | November - December 2002
LO SPECCHIO
Painting exhibition | February 2004
SNIPPETS
Painting exhibition | November 2004
