Roberto Venturoni (Rome, 22 October 1945 – Rome, 18 September 2011), was an Italian painter,
engraver and sculptor.
Biography
Born in Rome in 1945, he began painting at a young age, following the figurative style of his time, mainly landscape. He reveals himself as an artist with an intense productive activity as a painter, sculptor and engraver. Above all a painter, he researches and experiments different pictorial stylistic solutions, he prefers
impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating ...
. He has attended specialization courses in painting and engraving since 1973, studying drawing, watercolor and pastel with Silvio Bicchi in Rome. Since 1979 he has followed courses in engraving techniques and chalcography printing at
Luigi Guardigli "ELLEGI" school laboratory.
From 1981 under the direction of
Giulio Turcato
Giulio Turcato (16 March 1912, Mantua – 22 January 1995, Rome) was an Italian artist, belonging to both figurative and abstract expressionist currents.
Biography
Giulio Turcato was born in Mantua. He attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venez ...
, he attended the Free School of Nude at the Academy of Fine Arts in
Via Ripetta
Via di Ripetta, also called Via Ripetta, is a street in the historic centre of Rome (Italy), in the rione Campo Marzio, that links Piazza del Popolo to Via del Clementino and, with other toponyms (Via della Scrofa, Via della Dogana Vecchia), rea ...
in Rome. From 1986 to 1987, he studied new engraving and printing techniques (drypoint, etching, artistic prints) at the "Four For Art" Laboratory School directed by
Ernesto Nino Palleschi. He exhibits his works in Italy, France and Japan. Participates in the group shows, Agostiniana Gallery (1986), Canovaccio Gallery (1987), Osaka Municipal Museum, Japan, (1992), Arlesienne Gallery in Arles, Biennial of European Engraving – Rotary Club Acqui Terme Ovada (2000), Castello degli Estensi
Ferrara
Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream ...
(2009). The solo shows, Babuino Gallery, Rome (1980); Sala Bramante, Rome (1991), Museo
Castel Sant’Angelo
The Mausoleum of Hadrian, usually known as Castel Sant'Angelo (; English: ''Castle of the Holy Angel''), is a towering cylindrical building in Parco Adriano, Rome, Italy. It was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum ...
(2007), Location
Studio DR Spazio Visivo (2007), Ryu Gallery, Shizuoka Japan (2010). He met famous exponents of Italian pictorial art but was above all a friend of
Paolo Salvati
Paolo Salvati (born 22 February 1939 in Rome – 24 June 2014 in Rome) was an Italian figurative artist, painter, and draftsman. His landscapes are the expression of poetic art, characterized by an intense chromatic tone as a metaphorical depic ...
(1939–2014), companion of numerous exhibitions. Venturoni died 2011 in
Roma
Roma or ROMA may refer to:
Places Australia
* Roma, Queensland, a town
** Roma Airport
** Roma Courthouse
** Electoral district of Roma, defunct
** Town of Roma, defunct town, now part of the Maranoa Regional Council
*Roma Street, Brisbane, a ...
.
Bibliography
* Catalog. ''I paesaggi di Roberto Venturoni: percezione e comunicativa di una efficace interpretazione, by Carlo Savini'', 1987.
* Monograph, Roberto Venturoni: i paesaggi dell'io; by Dario Micacchi, 1990.
*Catalog, ''Venturoni: Sala del Bramante'', 1991.
* Monograph, ''L'incisione: Roberto Venturoni, by Roberta Perfetti'', 1994.
* Catalog, ''Venturoni: strutture, maschere e manufatti: opere grafiche'', 1995.
* Catalog, ''Le maschere di Roberto Venturoni'', by Domenico Guzzi, 1999.
* Monograph, ''Venturoni: terrecotte'', 1999, Edizioni Four For Art, Roma.
* Catalog, ''Roberto Venturoni: l'opera grafica'': 1979–2002, by Ferruccio Massimi, 2003.
* Monograph, ''Venturoni: opere astratte'' 2006.
* Catalog of Italian sculptors, by Paolo Levi, Editore Giorgio Mondadori, 2006, pp. 341.
* Catalog, ''Venturoni: Blu cosmici: Castel Sant'Angelo'', 8–10 dicembre 2007.
* Catalog of Italian sculptors, by Paolo Levi, Editore Giorgio Mondadori, 2008, pp. 357.
* Catalog, Percorsi d'arte in Italia, by Giorgio Di Genova, , Editore Rubettino, 2016, pp. 249.
Paintings in museums
* Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Artists present at Anticoli between the 19th and 21st century of
Anticoli Corrado.
* Museo Civico delle Cappuccine,
Bagnacavallo, Italy,
Museo Civico delle Cappuccine by Bagnacavallo, Roberto Venturoni (1945–2011) six artistic prints.
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External links
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Roberto Venturoni, biography on Artprice.com
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1945 births
2011 deaths
20th-century Italian painters
20th-century Italian male artists
Italian male painters
Painters from Rome