Riccardo Gusmaroli, Veneto origins (Verona 1963), has made the city of Milan for living and business. His artistic career begins in the early 90s as a photographer of still life and architecture. The early exhibitions are at the Galleria Toselli and Studio d’Arte Raffaelli.
The photography aspect is always present and transformed, covered with colorful signs and thin sections, only to reappear as a sculptural form, almost sculptural. On 2000 the exhibitions at the Gallery Montrasio in Monza, the Galleria Forni in Bologna, Studio Simonis in Paris, the Galleria Cŕ di Fra in Milan, but also in public spaces, such as Villa Sartirana in Giussano.
A characteristic of Gusmaroli is to continue with his artistic freedom, ranging in the choice of materials and surfaces to be used as bases and active elements of the artistic. The selections of stamps, maps of the "whole city", but also maps monochrome background, white and red, on which to create textures of great formal elegance and light poetry with simple objects repeated, born with the equally simple gesture of paper folding. Boats or airplanes in an operation that requires minimal force to "go away" and characterizes the search for Gusmaroli of last decade.
The vortices of boats of various colors from white to red from green to black reproduce imaginary trips with impossible routes, the result of associations, connections and feelings that arise from the materials. A calculated musical, told from the waves of folded paper in the form of objects related to the theme of travel, on the works of Gusmaroli, with research ranging from the concept of lightness to the relations of light and shadow, solid and void, action and inaction .
Some exibitions: on 2008 Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery Rome and Turin, on 2009 L’artista e la materia, Galleria Tega in Milan, A tutto tondo Paola Verrengia Gallery in Salerno, Orler Gallery Madonna di Campiglio, on 2010 Looks good on paper Anfiteatro Arte Milan, Spazia Gallery Bologna, Colossi Arte Contemporanea Brescia, Glauco Cavaciuti Milan Gallery, on 2011 Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery Tel Aviv, Galleria Tega Milan.
In 2012 the exibition at the Orler Gallery of Mestre “10 giorni dopo l’inizio della primavera”.
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