Rino Valido

“COLOUR AS THE PROTAGONIST”

When you enter Rino Valido’s studio, in a building in the historical centre of Genoa, your first reaction is surprise. It is not big, but divided in two by an added storey. In the lower part, of two areas, you can see furniture and different objects, desks, tables, photographs, drawings, maquettes of graphic and architectonic works and, on the walls, paintings. You cannot really tell the job of the owner.
Only the atmosphere makes it clear that he has little or nothing to do with his neighbours, who have on their doors brass plates with stiff qualifications. If you go upstairs through a steep stair, you enter a very tidy room full of file cabinets, computers, CDs, printers, scanners and other technical instruments. Also here you can find some projects, plans, elevations and some three-dimensional visualisations and models that seem to answer the question.
He must be an architect, or an organiser, a graphic designer or an expert in image communication. When you move in the other room (the one that was “prepared” for the event, in the picture published at the beginning of this catalogue) the scenery totally changes: tables full of colours, tins and bottles with powders, terrae and other mysterious com...

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