Riccardo Chirici - Horses

The depiction of animals in art has ancient origins, even appearing in primitive cave paintings. For religious reasons, various types of animals appear in the works of various ancient civilizations. It was especially in the Middle Ages, within the International Gothic style, that animal depictions became widespread as true life portraits, both within works of art and in notebooks of drawings and sketches. The presence of animals as subjects in art remained constant until the contemporary era. In this painting, Riccardo Chirici focuses his research on the figure of the horse. A noble animal, a symbol of beauty and harmony, the horse has repeatedly been a prominent subject in the history of art. Since the fourteenth century, its presence has always been obligatory in battle scenes or equestrian monuments, and for artists, representing it with anatomical precision and naturalistic rendering has always been a challenge.

Riccardo Chirici's pictorial language is distinguished by the prevalence of color over line and a synthetic style of application that represents a reinterpretation of the Tuscan Macchiaioli tradition. In Chirici's paintings, therefore, we can appreciate how reality is reconstructed through patches of color that create a harmonious interplay of shapes and planes that overlap on the surface of the painting. The use of light, again through the tonal values ​​of color, is fundamental and dramatic, measuring spaces and distances and determining precise and unique atmospheric conditions.

Riccardo Chirici was born in Livorno in 1959. He began painting as a self-taught artist and in 1975 enrolled in the Trossi-Uberti school, directed by Voltolino Fontani and later by Marc Sardelli. He attended engraving courses with the painter Walter Cecchi. At the age of twenty, he left his university studies in Pisa, studying Biology, to devote himself entirely to painting. In 1991, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, under Professor Gianfranco Notargiacomo. In forty years of uninterrupted work, he has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows in Italy and abroad, including the Pacific Ocean Gallery in Hawaii, the Alkyon Gallery in Charleston, SC in the United States, the Archaeological Museum of Anzio, and the Museo del Vittoriano in Rome. For the past ten years, his paintings have been on display at Via del Corso 45 in Rome.

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