Riccardo Baruzzi

Baruzzi resumes the traditional artistic genres dictated by the Academy of France, such as Still Life, considered a secondary genre like Landscape, but it’s not that important in the artist's poetics which conceptually transforms and renews the genre by painting it on the contrary. Not by turning the canvas upside down, as one would think, but by positioning it in a zone of light and painting it from  behind keeping the objects portrayed in their starting position (in the series “Nature more rovesciate"). The tradition, as well as the amateur models, is also present in some other subjects such as the equestrian one, which in the hands of Baruzzi, especially in the series "Chili di Pittura”, acquires a noticeable pictorial matterism.

For this occasion, Baruzzi donated a work designed in 2013 "D.X XY" consisting of two files. The first file consists of a dialogue on painting between two subjects, X and Y, while in the second one the dialogue becomes a performance by two actors who act out the script written by the artist himself. The performance revolves around a movable structure that lends itself to expose the designs of Baruzzi that from time to time are exchanged by the two performers.