Armando Riva - At the mallet

The painting can be defined as a genre scene, that is, the depiction of an episode of everyday life that, apparently, lacks any significant element. These types of domestic subjects were long considered minor and only began to spread in Western art starting in the 17th century. Only with the development of 19th-century realism did everyday subjects become considered equally important as historical or religious ones. Armando Riva, in his pictorial production, demonstrates an absolute predilection for genre scenes of a popular, anecdotal nature. In his works, the artist immortalizes a peaceful and tranquil existence, in a decidedly candid narrative with a realist flavour.

As in his sculpture, Armando Riva's painting is also distinguished by his original research and strong aesthetic impact. His paintings draw on the post-impressionist tradition in their desire to capture, in each individual brushstroke, the light and color vibrations that shape objects, while simultaneously achieving a remarkable expressive synthesis. Armando Riva takes this approach to its extreme, with a powerful recontextualization informed by contemporary influences. His exploration of vibrations deepens, leading to the deconstruction of objects into individual brushstrokes. In short, the artist achieves a kind of divisionism, but in his reworking, this occurs with extremely dense and material color, lending the representation a more markedly expressionist quality. This interpretation remains consistent even in his choice of colors, which transcend natural elements and in his proposition of strong, very warm hues.

Armando Riva was born in San Floriano, near Milan, in 1947. His artistic career, primarily as a sculptor, began in 1965, but he has also worked in painting, photography, and film. Since the 1970s, Armando Riva's work has taken on a more defined, more emotional, and expressionistic aesthetic, with a more developed use of diverse materials, including composites, such as bronze, Plexiglas, wood, and fiberglass. In painting, however, his work takes on the form of a recontextualization of Post-Impressionism. His works have been exhibited in numerous national exhibitions, where the artist has consistently achieved critical and public acclaim.

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