Jacopo Rizzo

JACOPO RIZZO
Extemporaneous Artist · Painter & Sculptor
Art is not studied. It is felt, inhabited, become.
Jacopo Rizzo was born in 1972 and grew up immersed in a universe of sounds, rhythms and harmonies. It was music, in the early 1980s, that shaped his aesthetic sensibility and planted in him an inexhaustible curiosity for movement, colour, matter and form. Decades of observation, listening and lived experience quietly settled within him — until 2023, when he chose to give voice to all of this through painting and sculpture.
Self-taught by choice and by vocation, Rizzo did not train within the walls of an academy: his true school was life itself, instinct, and direct experimentation with materials. What might appear to be a limitation becomes instead his greatest strength: free from academicism and convention, his artistic language is authentic, immediate and unconditional.
Painting — Colour, Energy, Universe
In his early works, Rizzo explores colour in its purest and most powerful form, treating paint as a living language: direct, spontaneous, visceral. Nature soon becomes his privileged interlocutor. Flowers and fields transform into emotional landscapes — not faithful representations, but visions transfigured by vibrant, ...

Self-taught artist with a spontaneous, instinctive approach to art