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Rino Valido was born in Varazze in 1947.
In 1967 he moved to Genoa to begin his experience in art field, after a few years he starts collaborating in Arte Poleschi Gallery in Lucca, working with the most important names of contemporary art.
With a great wish of new experiences, in 1978 he opens a creative studio of image and communication, collaborating with relevant Italian societies and public institutes, creating their company identification connecting art and industry.
He has taken part to the most important Italian Art Fairs, Expo Arte in Bari, Arte Fiera in Bologna..
He has created official posters for literature prices, such as Premio Bancarella. You can find his works in public and private collections in Italy and abroad.
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Luciano Caramel describes his studio in Genova as the reflection of the double nature of Rino Valido’s experience: divided in two main rooms, as the human mind is divided in two hemispheres.
Whereas on the one hand there’s the rational hemisphere, “a really tidy room full of archives, compters, cds, scanners, plans”, where Valido works as designer ( it’s opportune to underline his intervention for Ansaldo), on the other hand there’s the “right hemisphere” of the atelier. This last one offers “ colour-covered tables, pots and bottles with coloured dusts, mysterious substances, and all around felt-tip pens, broad knifes, and paintings everywhere.”
These canvas represent the link between the rich creativeness and a great knowledge of colours, matured in a long experience in the typographic industry, which permits to his paintings to keep a researched harmony and never loose their balance, using also the most mixed matters.
We can mention other artists who, as Rino Valido, had starter their artistic career in graphics, to convert the acquired skills to artistic creation: René Magritte, Costantino Nivola, Andy Wahrol.
Rino Valido’s work is capable t ogive a singolar vision of the questions about the “chords” of colours together with the shapes, about their “personalities” and “sounds” and their “weighs” in the composition, subjects of Kandinskij’s discussions in “On the Spiritual in Art” (1910).
Rino Valido put together simphonies of “precious or common cloths, tatters, differents for their age and geographic origin, charged of their stories, denounced by their wear and by the signed of their antecedent function.
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Also these insertions, similar to marquetry, are a part of the dominant orchestration of tonalities of his paintings, sometimes in a low warm dimension, often vivid, and sometimes shrilling and bright, which reminds, more than the analytic elaboration of the Cubism, or the ancient or physic objectuality pre-pop, Atanasio Soldati in the second post-war period, or Matisse’s ”gouaches découpées” of the Fifties.”
Valido’s work takes life from two different studios: one in the historic centre of Genoa, and one in St. Raphael in Provence, where in the Nineties the artist conceived “ the vibrant Camargue landscapes, executed using the entire scale of Louberon ochre colours, which constitute the first step to the more synthetic landscapes painted after 1999”, following the same evocative abstract tendence.
MAIN SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1975: Genoa, Il Crocicchio gallery
1978: Genoa, Mazzini gallery
1979: Genoa, Guidi gallery
Genoa, Villa Gropallo
1980: Cianciano, Palazzo delle Terme
1981: Lucca, San Michele gallery
1982: Messina, Cancelliere gallery
1981-1989: Pontremoli, Bancarella Prize
1984: Ferrara, Il Guercino gallery
1985: Modena, Farini gallery 23
1995: St. Raphael, Francia Gold fe Vallescure
1999: Empoli, Galleria Arti Figurative
2000: Trento, Le Due Spine gallery
2001: Conzano (AL), Villa Vidua
Lucca, Peschi Arte
2002: Pietrasanta, Comune di Pietrasanta, Il Chiostro
2003: Paris, Salon d’automne
Bagnol en Foret
2004: Pietrasanta, Proposte d’arte gallery
2005: Forte dei Marmi (Lucca), Galleria Poleschi Arte
Speciale Arte Tivu 2005
2006: Milan, Movimento Arte gallery
Lerici (SP), Canci gallery
Speciale Arte Tivu 2006
2007: Dubai, MD Arte
Finale Ligure, Complesso monumentale di Santa Caterina
Albissola, La Stella gallery
Lerici, Canci gallery
MAIN GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1979: Genoa, Mazzini gallery – Pittori liguri
1980: Genoa, Il Crocicchio gallery – Il Piccolo Formato
1981: Lucca, Galleria Poleschi Arte – Pittori contemporanei
1982: Bruxelles, Maison de le Culture
1984: St. Raphael, Centre Culturel de St. Raphael
1985/86 : Athens, Moscow, Istambul, Madrid, Tunisi – Expositions and studies
1986: Modena, Farini gallery
2000: Parigi, Salon d’automne
Pietrasanta, Il Vaticano gallery
2001: St. Raphael: Exposition Le Mure St. Raphael
2002/03/04/05: Forte dei Marmi, Galleria Poleschi Arte
2005: St. Raphael, Centre Culturel de St. Raphael
2006: Finale Ligure, Bersani gallery
Lerici, Canci gallery
Paris, Goin Art gallery
Genoa, Cerruti Arte gallery
2007: Messina, Il Sagittario gallery