Riccardo Gusmaroli (1963), began his artistic career as a photographer collaborating with Studio Azzurro until his first personal exhibition in 1992 at the Galleria Toselli in Milan. In 1998 he held a collective exhibition at the Galleria Cà di Frà in Milan with Damien Hirst, Konrad Klapheck, Tano Festa and Mauro Benetti. Since 2000 he has exhibited at the Montrasio Gallery in Monza, at the Forni Gallery in Bologna, at the Simonis Studio in Paris, at the Tega Gallery in Milan, Ermanno Tedeschi in Turin. In 2010 the Spazia Gallery in Bologna celebrated its 30 years of exhibition activity with the important personal exhibition of Riccardo Gusmaroli “DERIVE” curated by Valerio Dehò. Among the group exhibitions to remember the Civic Museum of Lodi in Milan, with Carla Accardi and Nicola De Maria, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Torino, Galleria Sperone in New York.
His whirlwinds of boats on the canvases reproduce imaginary journeys with impossible routes, the result of associations, sensations and connections that derive from the same materials. A calculated musicality, told by the waves of paper folded in the form of objects linked to the theme of travel, unfolds on the works of Gusmaroli, where the research ranges from the concept of lightness to the relationships of light and shadow, full and empty, action and non-action .
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