Cesare Reggiani

Artist’s Statement:

Drawing is the basis of all my artworks.

In the course of my artistic activity I’ve always tried to look towards a synthesis of the elements in an artwork.

I do need to be an eclectic artist: in the course of time I’ve driven my personal research in several artistic fields: painting, illustration, movies, illustrated books, music.
Even though I’m passionated and attracted by the classical techniques as oil on canvas or drawing with pencils or china-ink, nowadays I also look at digital medium with great interest: I’m searching the way to let them coexist eachother.

In my paintings, I’ve found oil on canvas the most suitable medium in order to obtain bright and harmonic surfaces.
Isolated animal figures live in a tidy natural context. Few elements around them: the horizon’s line, sheets of water, woods or sequences of trees, rare mountains in the distant background.
Together with these elements of a mental vision of the nature, some majestic and transluscent architectural shapes: monolyths, arches, walls.
Through this “minimalist” composition, I try to transmit a sense of wonder, suspension, timeless calm, contemplation, silence, peace.

Even if I’ve been always very attracted by modern and con...

Art Academy in Ravenna.
Teacher for several years at ISIA (Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche.

Recent solo main exhibitions:
2019- Cesena (I), Galleria Il Vicolo / Faenza (I), Galleria Comunale d'Arte / 2018-Albissola (I), Galleria Il Bostrico / Lugo (I), Caffè letterario / 2016-Florence (I), Galleria Immaginaria / 2014-Zwingenberg (D), Remise Galerie / 2013-Milan (I), Galleria Baroni / Milan (I), Galleria Arnaldo Pavesi / 2012-Karlsruhe (D), Art Fair / 2011-Berlin (D), Walter Bischoff Galerie / 2010-Roermond (NL), DZD Art Gallery / 2009-Davis CA (USA), John Natsoulas Gallery / 2004-Paris (F),Galerie Charlotte Norberg...