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Enrico Ceccarelli is a painter and etching-maker. He is graduated at the Academy of Arts in Macerata with Remo Brindisi and has attended a course on the history of arts at the University of Urbino, under the direction of professor Pietro Zampetti, after graduating in Foreign Languages and Literatures. He has taken part to some relevant collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad (Paris, Tokyo) and has made personal exhibitions in many italian towns. He has gained significant recognitions in competitions both national and international, appearing most of the times among the best candidates. Some of Ceccarelli’s works appear in both private and public collections, in Italy and in the USA. His painting took shape during the second half of the Seventies, as an individual expression of the neo-figurative trend (also called “new image painting”), an art in which expressive and formal istances are the most prominent: layout and construction of the painting, colour, shadowplay, expression and intensity. Painting is meant to be a means for evoking the intensity of someone’s lifetime, for unfolding the individual act of vision, which always implies some ambiguity. Concreteness, sensuality and symbolism are being conjugated in different contexts, up to the point in which the limits of the figurative dimension are concerned; as the criticist Achille Bonito Oliva sais in his book Nuove trame dell’arte, the new figurative painting promotes the interlacement between different languages.
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