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Riccardo Guarneri (Florence 1933) He began painting in 1953. His first abstract paintings were placed in the informal area. Read the full biography

Riccardo Guarneri (Florence 1933) He began painting in 1953. His first abstract paintings were placed in the informal area. The first personal exhibition was in The Hague in 1960. In 1962 he began to be interested in color as light, in handwriting as painting and in the problems inherent to visual perception. From this moment on, sign, light and color are identified, substantiating a poetic world of acute sensitivity and constituting, despite its different phases, the common thread of a very personal research. The first very clear paintings are born in which the space is marked by luminous variations and whose surfaces are treated mainly in pencil. These paintings were exhibited for the first time in 1963 in the solo exhibition at "La Strozzina" in Palazzo Strozzi. He is co-founder of the group “Tempo 3” which proposed itself as the third movement of abstract painting after geometric and informal abstractionism. From '64/65 onwards the work acquired a more rigorous and geometric structure. In 1966 he participated in the Venice Biennale and in the “Weiss auf Weiss” exhibition at the Kunstalle in Bern. In 1967 he exhibited with "Cento Proposte" at the Paris Biennial and participated in the "Nuovatende" exhibition. He has been awarded several times in national and international exhibitions. He obtained the teaching position at the State Institute of Art in Florence and the following year at the Advanced Course in Industrial Design. Participates in the European "Nuova Pittura" exhibitions. Among the numerous personal exhibitions, noteworthy are the anthological ones held at the Westfaelischer Kunstverein in Muenster in 1972 and the one at Palazzo Pitti in Florence in 2004. For two years he held a teaching course at the International University of Art in Florence. He exhibited at the Rome Quadrennials in 1973 and 1986, at the Milan Biennials in 1974 and 1983, and was invited to historical exhibitions on Italian art: Lines of artistic research in Italy 1950-1980, Abstract-Abstract Secessions in Italy from the post-war period to 1990, Continuity 1945-2000. In 1977 he obtained the chair of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara and subsequently at the Academies of Bari, Venice and Florence until 2003. His works can be found in various Contemporary Art Museums in Italy and abroad. He lives and works in Florence.