Paintings

Riccardo Riccardi began painting as a child, long before he devoted himself to music. When he first started studying composition, in the 1970’s, he was already producing abstract paintings. In the following decade he focused on music, but in the early 1990’s returned to painting, balancing his creative interests as an artist with his musical activities. In the period from 1991 to 1995 he studied with Florentine scene designer, Ferdinando Ghelli, to learn the general principles of the technique of drawing.

In 1997 at the Teatro dei Leggieri of San Gimignano, Riccardi mounted his first exhibition in conjunction with a performance of his chamber opera, L’Avvenimento. Then in 2001 at the Accent Centre in Paris, he presented a show entitled, Casanova’s Story, followed that same year by Le isole, an exhibition of paintings with surrounding sound, staged at the Rocca Aldobrandesca in Piancastagnaio, Siena. His artistic activity was again showcased in 2002 with a show in Rimini, Ognuno di noi è più d’uno, and ended, for the time being, in 2004 with two events, Specchio at the Vittoriano in Rome and Snippets at the Corin Gallery in Towson – Maryland. 

A journey through images | May 1997

Painting exhibition | May 2001

Painting exhibition with surrounding sound | December 2001 – 6 January 2002

Painting exhibition | November – December 2002

Painting exhibition | February 2004

Painting exhibition | November 2004