Massimo Riccò - Paris

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One-of-a-kind work, directly from the artist's studio.
Dimensions 70x80 cm, 2 cm thick, made on pure cotton canvas mounted on a quality spruce wooden frame, entirely crafted in Italy.
The work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity personally signed by the artist, with a central hanger, a final protective varnish, ready to be hung.

Massimo Riccò was born in Modena in 1961, where he currently lives and works. Toward the end of the 1990s, he entered the art world, drawing with pencils, charcoal, and sanguines, but soon moved to color through oil and acrylic techniques.
After an initial impressionist landscape approach, predominantly figurative in nature, over the years there has been a steady evolution toward breaking form, entrusting color with the task of giving the work strength and dynamism.
There is a constant compositional search for subjects of various kinds, and study of different materials to be able to express the artistic language effectively.
For years he has been involved not only in artistic production but also in teaching painting, seeking to stimulate creativity and personal interpretation, a challenge constantly proposed in harmony with his vision of art.
In addition to countless exhibitions, shows, and recognitions, he can boast a high number of national-level awards.

Web: www.massimoricco.eu
Mail: massimo.ric61@gmail.com

Some of the numerous critical texts from art experts:

Measurement and proportion govern Riccò's works, which, never betraying his careful study of compositional rhythms, let the viewer's eye perceive color intervals of intense emotional impact. The potential of the chromatic tones, of which the artist demonstrates absolute knowledge, orchestrate a rhythm that alternates balance and contrast, sharing the very nature of light, static and vibrant at the same time…
The spectator thus becomes a witness to a process, to an alchemy, that transforms into abstract expanses the reality from which the works bear traces, now more, now less generous.
The passion of the moment, of that encounter between heart and reality, is generously revealed by an artist who does not spare his observer from what happened: Massimo Riccò's poetics reveal maturity and awareness of someone who has something to tell and cannot help but entrust it to the canvas.
(Margherita Fraccon – Museum educator, expert in contemporary art)

Between nature and imagination, reality and abstraction of the real, flows the splendid painting of Massimo Riccò. Sensations frozen in their evocative moment and precious, fleeting instants merge in color and light in a painting tied to expressionist art in emotional vigor, where pathos flows in chromaticism progressing toward immediate pictorial gesture… (Carla d’Aquino Mineo)

Riccò introduces into his works a color capable of embracing minimal variants, difficult pairings. This demonstrates how he has achieved, throughout his artistic career, mastery and confidence in his expressive means.
Riccò's exquisite sensitivity is revealed by the themes he favors, making them participants in a reality where, always, there are qualities and intonation, and this to show that from the very beginning there is sobriety and seriousness of intent, the ultimate purpose…

We can still speak of fantastic visions, or at times of the day is what surrounds man truly fantastic as in the Maestro Riccò's paintings?
The answer lies in originality and the leap in quality that earns the Artist recognition among those who deserve attention precisely for the ability to exalt the soul that lies beyond appearances

Riccò loves painting and paints with great passion, thus he tells what his eyes see and what his poetic nature suggests.
He paints canvases to be admired with great pleasure, as the taste for beauty, the confidence in balancing light and shadow, which are nothing more than the moment's emotions, expressed with a strong personal character, highly effective, together with his rich spirit, not divorced from exuberant imagination, but contained within the bounds of good taste.
People will talk about him.
(the critics of the MC Art Studio – Livio Collina Foundation)

Massimo Riccò's painting emerges as a light harmony that slowly approaches from his shades to more substantial elements, appearing closer to us and initially confusing the viewer. Thus the image, in the immediate almost abstract reading, gains figurative substance, enlarging itself more and more, giving the depicted image all its pictorial reality.
Two realities overlap without canceling each other, fusing in a graphic and chromatic symbiosis. From strong foreground colors, we gradually move to a well-defined figurative reality, the soul of the image and rich in sweetness. Faded but precise subjects, seemingly vague yet constructive images, essential to the balance of the canvas.
Beautiful glimpses appear as if from an uncertain ether, but slowly built with force and confidence.
The chromatic is strong and well distributed. Lights and shadows build volumes and distances, which perspective harmonizes. The depicted buildings are from different times and the landscapes express vast areas. All emerges from a faint chromatic haze, which builds an immense breath… (Enrico Miglioli)

taking control of the means of painting, its techniques, its seductions, and then remixing it all into an extremely original and evocative vision.
Massimo Riccò still manages to surprise with a figurative timbre that seemed to have said everything, seemed to have expressed everything, except this delicate painting, which challenges vision in diversified and overlapped planes, in touches of color masterfully targeted… (Silvia Arfelli)