Michael Peddio - RUPESTRE - PESCE NERO

Original cotton canvas painting, unique piece, mounted on a wooden frame measuring 40 cm in height, 30 cm in width, with a thickness of 2 cm, without a frame. Technique: oil and mixed media on canvas. Sent via BRT-DHL-UPS or similar, including a Certificate of Authenticity. Published in a catalog. Year 2019. Title: Rupestre, Black Fish.

Michael Peddio: My free expression is not confined by a preconceived idea but is conveyed through color and shapes as the only tools, a return to a form of primordial art. The absence of drawing is, for me, a prerogative of the indeterminability of the work at the moment of its creation; just as in life, and especially in the times we live in, there can be no certainty of outcome for any situation.
My painting evolves from a blank canvas to an unpredictable ending. For me, there is only acceptance of art as an unpredictable and uncontrollable process.

Michael Peddio takes his first steps in art as a child, inspired by his father Riccardo, a painter. The turning point occurs around the age of 30, thanks to his encounter with master Teobaldo Cattini, a Reggio painter known for his macchiaiolo style, who opened the doors to painting for him. He draws great inspiration and strength from the former boxer painter. In 2012, meeting artist Barbara Nicoletto, his current partner, marked the beginning of his second artistic season and artistic maturity. Between 2013 and 2014, painting began to take on an inner significance. Figurative art started giving way to introspection. Inner strength took over, and the canvas became a tear, increasingly unfiltered over the years, more and more free of hesitation in revealing his I. Strengths and weaknesses are shown without shame. The man is naked, without masks.
In April 2016, he was noticed by critic Daniel Buso and, together with his partner Barbara Nicoletto, exhibited at: Il Museo in Vetrina, Bipersonale at Museo CA’ DEI CARRARESI in Treviso, a very important venue rarely granted to an emerging artist.
In 2018, Michael Peddio reached his painterly maturity. His paintings are free from constraints, expressing with harmony and beauty all the raw reality that the artist wants to be shown.
Let us find strength and harmony. Let us find positivity even in tragedy. Let us find beauty.
Since 2018, we have seen the artist collaborating with Galleria REART, opening up to the art world and engaging with other artists in the national scene. We see him exhibiting and also curating exhibitions. Together with artist Barbara Nicoletto and Giorgio Ferretti, he founded the movement of the Chromatists. They gather in a Factory, a place for discussion and work.
In 2020, the meeting with Angela Lazzaretti, owner of Radium Artis Gallery, was a significant source of connection for Michael Peddio with the art world at a national level. The exhibition in Pietrasanta at Radium Artis Gallery marked his debut in the art that matters, at the age of 46, giving him the visibility that his works deserve.
In 2021, the meeting with critic and curator Alberto Navilli marked the beginning of a further evolutionary step, witnessing his art increasingly grow along the path of an ever more raw and uncompromising spontaneity.


Most significant exhibitions for painting works

2007 - Torre Orologio – Collective Exhibition - San Polo D’Enza
2014 - Talking About Art, a collective in Camogli at Art Gallery.
2014 - Personal Exhibition at Comunita’ Monte di Portofino
2014 - Madonna dei Gotti collective curated by the Municipality of Camogli - Liguria
2015 - Le mers e le Mond Lontains - Staff at the municipality of Campegine
2016 - The Bipersonal Showcase Museum at CA’ DEI CARRARESI Museum in Treviso
2017 - Galleria REART Christmas Collective Exhibition
2018 - Reggia di Rivalta, Collective exhibition at Palazzo Ducale. Rivalta
2018 - Collective exhibition at Villa Castello La Tenuta di Caccia in Regnano
2018 - Arte Fiera di Padova exhibits for Galleria REART.
2019 - 500 Leonardo Forever – Leonardo's 500th anniversary at Tecnopolo – Reggio Emilia
2019 - ArtParmaFair 2019 – Arte Fiera Parma exhibited at REART gallery.
2019 - CHRONOS – Tripersonale, at Galleria REART in Reggio Emilia
2020 - Pietrasanta - Galleria Radium Artis - Personal
2021 - The Four Elements – Radium Artis Gallery – Tripersonale – San Martino in Rio
2024 - EXIT - Galleria ArtEkyp - Tripersonale - MODENA


Bibliography

2019 – CHRONOS Works Catalog curated and critiqued by Dr. Giuseppe Berti
2021 - The Four Elements curated by Dr. Alberto Navilli
2024 - EXIT – Exhibition Catalog – Modena