THEhyperrealism it is a kind of painting and sculpture whose artists use photographic techniques and a mechanical reproduction of reality to build the illusionism of their paintings and their sculptures. The most common subjects are human figures, city scenarios or inanimate objects described with a style often influenced by advertising: aggressive colors, shots strongly focused on the main subject. In order to reproduce reality in a rigorous manner, hyper-realists generally use very enlarged photographs for paintings or live casts for sculptures, to realize as many details as possible, in a real "manic form". The term primarily applies to an independent art movement in the United States and Europe and is considered an advancement of photorealism.
Italy was also influenced by this artistic genre in the 70s and there are many painters, masters who have tried their hand at this technique which gave their works a new, authentic, hyperreal light. Today we remember one of the most important Italian artists, well known and appreciated by rigorous art critics and simple art lovers. They followed him in the numerous exhibitions he did when he was alive. Visitors to the exhibitions were literally "speechless". Many said: "it is not clear whether they are photographs, or paintings on canvas ...".
Orlando Ricci died on July 14, 2016. Hundreds of his works are jealously guarded with pride, pride and love by Vanessa, his beloved and beloved daughter.
Biography
Orlando Ricci was born in Gavignano (Rome) the 22 January 1942, he lived in the Capital, where he carried out his artistic activity. Self-taught painter, he was trained through classical works. In this context, his artistic research led him to hyper-realistic painting with particular attention to still lifes, in close collaboration with Maestro Luciano Ventrone. He made frequent trips to Provence (France), as deeply in love with this region, the muse of his paintings. He has made several solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad, receiving considerable critical and public success. The most recent: he exhibited at the Vittoriano in Rome, at Palazzo Valentini, the seat of the Province of Rome and at the Ministry of Defense - Giardini di Palazzo Barberini.
The last criticism made, on the occasion of the exhibition at the Vittoriano in Rome:
Observing the works of Orlando Ricci, they are tempted to touch the canvas, because approaching the painting and then moving away is not enough to unveil the "trick" of its hyperrealism. It is impossible not to think of the famous Merri Fruit Basket, one of the most illustrious examples of a pictorial genre that is, in portraying what is inanimate, but telling of the attention to detail and to the life that almost obsessively tries to reproduce. Ricci succeeds, as some of the canvases show in this exhibition at the Victorian Complex.
"Still Life" means "still life", and this is probably the artist's intent: to stop the explosion of life in its climax. In the next instant a decadence will probably begin, which the viewer can imagine as he or she believes, but what remains is the triumph of nature in its colors, smells, shapes, variety, the ability to renew itself and always be reborn. Ricci's bond with that nature is what substantiates the exhibition that the Central Hall of the Brasini del Vittoriano has the pleasure of hosting, and which demonstrates the artisan artist's ability to return a reality truer than truth.Alessandro Nicosia - Director of the exhibition spaces of the Complesso del Vittoriano
By Emanuela Ricci