Riccardo Licata (1929-2014) - Adeona

Born in Turin on December 20, 1929. After a brief Parisian interlude, his family moved to Rome where he lived from 1935 to 1945.
In 1946 Licata moved with his mother to Venice.
The architect Antonio Salvatori introduced him to the artistic culture of Bauhaus, while the painter Romualdo Scarpa began him in the art of mosaic in an experience that would prove decisive for his future.
He attended concerts at La Fenice Theatre and the Contemporary Music Festival of the Venice Biennale. With painters Ennio Finzi, Tancredi, Bruno Blenner and the sculptor Giorgio Zennaro, in 1949 he formed a group of young artists with an abstract tendency.
His "graphic-pictorial writing" begins to take shape, inspired by music.
He is present at the Venice Biennale of 1952 with a large mosaic.
From 1957 he lives in Paris (with frequent and regular working stays also in Venice
In 1962 the Mosaic School is integrated within the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris where Licata is still a lecturer
In 1963 he receives the Michetti Prize and in 1975 the First Prize at the Forlì Graphic Exhibition. Licata subsequently participated in editions of the Venice Biennale in 1964, 1970 and 1972, in the Rome Quadriennale, in the Biennales of Paris, Alexandria in Egypt, São Paulo in Brazil, and in the most important international graphic biennials.