Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea is pleased to present the third solo show of Enrico Tealdi (Cuneo, 1976) at the gallery, with works made by the artist in the last two years. Large-format canvases alternate with smaller ones and works on paper. Cliffs, maritime pines, beaches and woods are inhabited by figures placed on what could be perceived as the border of the landscape, but which in reality welcome them in an immersive and all-encompassing way. These scenarios are united by the delicacy, the wisdom of the gesture and the painterly expression.
Due to additions, the layers of painting sediment, and in the small works as well in the big ones, it is the color that build the shapes. However, the work on the canvas gives also space, it unravels, until showing raw and naked traits, which the artist's hand leaves undisturbed, virgin. The mixed technique with oil, acrylic and pigments finds its place on recovered canvases, favored by the artist in recent years, who can thus add new chapters to the already existing story experienced by the medium.
In the exhibited works, human figures complete the landscape on tiptoe, to seal the rediscovered union between man and nature. The characters of this narrative, that unfolds before our eyes, are at the same time observant and standing: the figure is like the tree, it is like the rock, it is one of the elements of the landscape, holding the same value, it is an organic form as well as the natural elements.
It is like investigating with a binocular in the distance through the pictorial windows open to the outside, which reveals us this truth: we are made of the same essence as what surrounds us. The natural detail becomes magnificent, the tree become a figure itself, the landscape is portrayed, it is a tale.
Enrico Tealdi was born in Cuneo in 1976, where he lives and works. He attended his Diploma in Painting at Accademia di Belle Arti L.R. di Cuneo. Among his solo shows: Halos, PIA | PALAZZINA INDIANO ARTE, Firenze (2022); Transfiguration Mode, Scuderie Ducali di Palazzo Acquaviva, Atri (2019); Concerto per carillon, Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea, Roma (2018); Si cercano parole che nessuno dirà, MAR - Museo d'Arte della città di Ravenna (2016); First Floor, Hommes Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2011). Among his recent group shows: Gli Incontri della Luna, Raucci/Santamaria Project, Milano (2022); Titolo l’edito inedito capitolo V Etere, Sociètè interludio, Torino (2022); Cartografia Sensibile, Palazzo Tornielli, Ameno (2022); The Milky Way, Franco Noero, Torino (2022); Citèra, Société interludio, Torino (2020); Inventario Varoli, della copia e dell’ ombra, Cotignola (2021); Dialogo Secondo, Torre di Marckellos, Aegina, Grecia (2019); Nero fortissimo. Rosa antichissimo, Museo Internazionale ceramico, Laveno (2018); Dehors, Museo Capitolare, Cisterna Romana della Cattedrale di Atri (2016); Katten, Kabinet-Mars, Mars, Milano (2016); Alcuni Paesaggi, en plein air painting experience, Villa Giulia, Verbania (2015); Landina, Cars, Omegna (2015); 1 Koffer Kunst, Atelier Nele Waldert, Dusseldorf/Heerdt, Germania (2015); Italia Ora, Museo H.C. Andersen, Roma (2011).