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CARLO RAVAIOLI
Carlo Ravaioli was from a family of sharecroppers, Coccolia, in 1954 on February the 12nd, where he would live until the age of twenty-six. The country is situated on the border between the provinces of Forlì and Ravenna, in a plain in Romagna between the hills and the Adriatic Sea.
It is a fertile and flat countryside: fruit growing, wheat, sugar beets, depending on the demands of the time.
Winters are foggy and rigid, summers are sultry. Besides the farmer’s houses there are stables and manure pits. The big cement tanks for the pulping of hemp, where boys use to bathe when the weather is hot. The families of three brothers live together in the same house, and they use to meet for meals in the kitchen on the ground floor and share the rooms and their work in the fields and with animals.
Suffering because of his frail constitution and being subject to a strict Catholic upbringing, Carlo spent most of his childhood together with his cousins who live in the same house. In the summer months the territory of the games is as extensive as the land rented to his father and uncles, where he is allowed to move freely. There are twelve acres bordered by three rivers, the river Ronco and two irrigation canals. Inside this large triangle, children can run, play, explore, climb trees. In the winter months their only hobbies are the fireplace and television at the Oratory. Charles, however, begins since childhood to show interest and skill for drawing, and more generally for small manual tasks. He models the clay, reproduces on paper the most evident elements of the landscape around him: the house, the trees, the river, carving small pieces of wood. When he was six he made his first oil painting. Later he procured the pieces and built a radio. Over time his room, only separated from the corridor by a heavy curtain, becomes a small workshop. His parents would like him to be a professional, a doctor or a lawyer; they refused artistic schools. So, after middle school, Carlo attended the high school. At that time he was a young man, lean and introverted, with a passion for the visual arts. He preferred the surrealists, especially Salvador Dali, and at the same time he begun to be interested into esotericism and devoured books on alchemy. It was not an easy time, he did not tie with classmates and tended to close. At that time, the first signs of a headache started and they will force him two years later to hospitalization in a specialized structure at the Hospital of Borgo San Lorenzo.
After graduation, mediating between his inclinations and desires of the family, he joined the faculty of architecture and moved to Florence. But something did not work, Carlo rarely attended courses and he was late in the exams. He spent his time in museums and walking around the city. He started taking photographs, and this practice will accompany him for more than two decades. During these years, the headache got worse. During the crisis, which occurred at regular intervals throughout the day, he had to remain in the dark. Because of the acute attacks he was prone to fainting. After hospitalizations, Ravaioli left the university and returned to Coccolia.
1976 was an empty year, but his health improved. However, he did not abandon his passion for painting and when it came to know about the anatomical drawing courses held at the Rizzoli hospital in Bologna, he decided to try. During the two-year course, Ravaioli finally seems to find an environment favourable to his inclinations. In fact, it will remain his only experience of specific studies. He stood out immediately and his artwork won the first prize in a competition in his sector, and later it would be used in educational texts and communication campaigns: this recognition allowed him to gain confidence in their own ability. During the years of the course he also dedicated himself to comics, he dramatized and produced predominantly erotic strips for newspapers in vogue at the time.
In ’79 he was completely recovered, so he obtained the degree of anatomical illustrator and he worked for a graphic and technical design studio in Ravenna. Here Ravaioli dealt with the reproduction of posters of the Art Nouveau period. In this way he approached to Klimt decorative style, which deeply impressed him and whose influence will be easily recognized in his paintings of the following period. The following year his family moved to Villafranca , to the house inherited from his mother. It was no longer the old cottage on the river bank, but it was still the countryside landscape. Living a few kilometres from Coccolia, the sea is farther and the rose behind the ideal boundary of the Via Emilia. Here Carlo decided to continue as a graphic on his own, associating an ever more intense photographic activity. He started painting with continuity, combining techniques inherited from the comics, such as the phrases entered in the side of the figure or along the perimeter of the picture, with other techniques derived from Klimt, such as the use of gold, the borders, certain modes of composition of the figures . The awards for his artworks became more frequent. As a graphic he acquired customers and he was invited to work with various advertising agencies. As a photographer he was required in the clubs of his region for the peculiarity of his work. His paintings were exhibited in group and received appreciation. One aspect is common to all of his works: a very careful approach to the technical aspects of the labor, to the new technological supports available and at the same time a stubborn maintaining or even a recovery of the most manual operations . So, he quickly learned computer graphics (in fact, later he will draft the paintings on graphic tablets), continuing to prepare the colours by mixing oxides and earths.
The eighties also mark a tighter comparison with the masters. Ravaioli attends exhibitions, he begins a deep examination of his own work. During a period of doubt and intolerance for his previous paintings, his attention stops on Amedeo Modigliani. Ravaioli spied his works, he dedicated paintings that represent a direct tribute to the master, and begun from him to think about a new painting. In fact, for some years the influence of Modigliani remained perceptible in the representation of the figures. But it is only a starting point. in In ’94, after transferring his activity as a graphic to Forlì, Carlo Ravaioli moved away from photography and spent more time painting. He studied the Italian Novecento, Casorati, Carra, Saetti the De Chirico’s estranging atmospheres. Then he started a very personal path. He focused on the most intimate issues for him and walked on paths that he aims to define in advance, pondering them carefully. He refined his distance from the object of his work to get the exact fit for the representation that interested him, his original measure. At the time, painting had become his main interest. In 1996, he spent just a half day working as a graphic designer dedicating himself more intensely to painting.
In 98 his first solo exhibition was staged at the oratory of S. Sebastiano in Forlì. It represented the birth of the painter we know today.
EXHIBITIONS
(UPDATING)
MOSTRE
2016
Biennale del Disegno Rimini
“Identikit”
partecipazione Circuito Open
2015
personali:
“Identikit”
Forlì – Galleria San Mercuriale
a cura di Marisa Zattini
“Open space”
Milano – Galleria Spaziarti
“Inaugurazione Nuovo Atelier”
Cervia – Mostra permanente
C.so Mazzini, 15
collettive:
“Arte in prefettura”
Prefettura di forlì
a cura di Flavia Bugani
“Forme e Colori”
artisti a Bossolasco (CN)
“Il giardino degli alberi di natale”
Milano Marittima – Cervia
a cura della Proloco Comune di Cervia
2014
collettive:
“Pantagruelica”
Cervia- Magazzini del Sale
a cura di Marisa Zattini
“Affordable Art Fair”
Milano
“Contemporanea” 18°ediz.
Forlì Fiera
Servizio TV
Videoregione
2015
personali:
“Identikit”
Forlì – Country Resort Corte San Rruffillo
a cura di Marisa Zattini
collettive:
“Panico e doppio Panico”
Forlì – a cura di Marisa Zattini
“King occhi di sole”
Terra del Sole
“Contemporanea” 17°ediz.
Forlì Fiera
pubblicazioni:
Annuario di Paolo Levi
2012
personali:
“Identikit”
Forlì – Oratorio San Sebastiano
a cura di Marisa Zattini
“Identikit”
second life
viaggio nel metaverso
collettive:
“Giovanni Pascoli”
San Mauro Mare
a cura di Marisa Zattini
“Forme e Colori”
artisti a Bossolasco (CN)
a cura di Paolo Levi
“Contemporanea” 16°ediz.
Forlì Fiera
“Immagina”
Reggio Emilia – Fiera
“Whirlpool”
Milano – Salone del mobile
2011
personali:
“Paesaggi interiori”
Avellino – Galleria Spazo9cento
“Luoghi apparenti”
Ravenna – galleria AMarte
a cura di Silvia Arfelli
“Personale”
Rivisondoli (AQ) – Museo del presepe
a cura di Giulio Carosone
“Contemporanea” 15°ediz.
Forlì Fiera
collettive:
“Artusianamente”
Castrocaro – Salone delle Feste
a cura di Marisa Zattini
“Arte Italiana”
Parigi
a cura di Silvia Arfelli
2010
personali:
“Memoria di altra vita”
Meldola – Galleria Michelacci
con la Prtecipazione di Vittorio Sgarbi
“Ricordi di seconda vita”
Pagani – Baccaro art gallery
“Identità Alterità”
Cesena – galleria il Vicolo
salotti letterari
a cura di Marisa Zattini
“Contemporanea” 14°ediz.
Forlì Fiera
collettive:
“Visioni di città”
Mombarccio
Sant’Angelo in Vado (PU)
Castello di Piobbico (PU)
a cura di Paolo Maria Rocco (PU)
2009
personali:
“Opere scelte”
Potenza – Galleria Idearte
A cura di Rino Cardone
“I luoghi della memoria”
Manfredonia (FG) – Galleria Piazza grande
“Personale”
Ravello (NA) – Chiostro di S. Francesco
A cura della galleria Petit Prince
“I luoghi ritrovati”
Napoli – Galleria Artemax
“Il luogo senza tempo”
Imola (BO) – Salannunziata
a cura di Silvia Arfelli
“L’arte in cantina”
Predappio (FC) – A cura del comune di predappio
“Contemporanea” 13°ediz.
Forlì Fiera
2008
personali:
“L’arte sul colle”
Sadurano (FC) – a cura de “Saturano serenade”
“Recinti ed oltre”
Rionero di V. (PT)
a cura di Donato La rotonda
“Personale”
Garlasco (PV) – A cura di MCL Garlasco
“Contemporanea” 12°ediz.
Forlì Fiera
2007
personali:
“Personale”
Cervia (RA) – Magazzini del Sale
a cura del Comune di Cervia
“Personale”
Sora (FR) – Galleria Piccirilli Arte
“Energia contemporanea”
Rimini – A cura di “Contemporanea” Fiera di forlì
“Contemporanea” 11°ediz.
Forlì Fiera
“Vernice”
Forlì Fiera 4° edizione
2006
personali:
“Personale”
Bologna – Galleria Golem Art Cafè
“Personale”
Forlì – Galleria Mega Forlì
A cura di Marco Viroli
“Personale”
Bologna – Galleria BiBò
“Contemporanea” 10°ediz.
Forlì Fiera
“Vernice”
Forlì Fiera 3° edizione
2005
personali:
“Profili d’Arte” al Garand Hotel
Castrocaro (FC) – a cura di Silvia Arfelli
“All’ombra del controluce”
Cervia (RA) – Magazzini del Sale
a cura del Comune di Cervia
“Murales a Diamante”
Diamante CS- a cura del comune di Diamante
“Personale”
Diamante CS – Associazione Culturale “Il Bagatto”
a cura di Marisa Lepore
“Le scale del sogno”
Bertinoro – Salone Comunale – Festa dell’Ospitalità
a cura di Enzo Dall’Ara
“Le scale del sogno”
Forlì – Show Room Tecnesa
“Contemporanea” 9°ediz.
Forlì Fiera
2004
personali:
“Labirinti”
Forli – a cura di Enzo Dall’Ara
Show Room Cierre
“Labirinti”
Forlì – Spazio espositivo Garibaldi 82
“Contemporanea” 8°ediz.
Forlì Fiera
Reggio Emilia “Immagina”
Fiera di Reggio Emilia
collettive:
“Il sentimento dell’arte”
Bologna – Palazzo Isolani
a cura di Art’è
“Scarpe”
San Mauro Pascoli – Villa Torlonia
a cura dell’associazione Culturale Crac
“Dipingere è amare ancora”
Roma – galleria Ta Matete
a cura di Art’è
2003
personali:
“Luoghi simultanei”
Roma – GalleriaTa Matete
Catalogo e mostra a cura di Silvia Pegoraro
collettive:
“Tendenze“
Parma – Palazzo S. Ludovico
a cura del comune di Parma
“Memoria e nostalgia”
Roma – Galleria Ta Matete
a cura di ART’E’
Deagu Corea “Deagu Milano Fine Art Exhibition”
Deagu Corea “Deagu Milano Fine Art Exhibition”
2002
collettive:
Memoria e nostalgia”
Milano – Galleria Ta Matete
a cura di ART’E’
2001
personali:
“Personale”
Faenza – Circolo degli Artisti
A cura di Andrea Brigliadori e Piero Rinaldi
“Arte in fiera”
Parma
“Contemporanea” 5°ediz.
Forlì Fiera
2000
personali:
“Mostra estemporanea”
Bertinoro (FC) – palazzo comunale
“Artisti in Fiera”
Fiera di Parma
“Contemporanea” 4°ediz.
Forlì Fiera
“Immagina”
Fiera di Reggio Emilia
1999
personali:
“Ritratti apparenti delle sfuggevoli verità“
Cervia – Magazzini del sale
“Contemporanea” 3°ediz.
Forlì Fiera
1998
personali:
“Ospiti del nessun luogo”
Forlì – Oratorio S. Sebastiano
a cura di Nicola Micieli e marisa Zattini
Altre mostre
Collettive:
1979
Ravenna “Manifesti” sala Mameli
1980
Reggio Emilia “Occhioiperocchio”
rotta di avvicinamento a Proteo
Teatro Municipale
a cura di G. Celli
1981
“Biennale di Forlì “
Accademia S. Mercuriale
(3° premio)
1986
“Uomo o macchina?”
Cervia Arte in Romagna
a cura di Romano Pieri
“Premio Alto Appennino”
S.Sofia
1987
Meldola Rassegna del piccolo Quadro
Chiesina dell’Ospedale
Forlì Donazione alla Croce Rossa
Mostra al Salone Comunale
1998
Forlì “Progetto Magnificat”
Sinodo di Forlì – Duomo
Palazzo Albertini
Forlì “Rappresentazione Madonna del Fuoco”
Sala 90 Pacifici
Forlì Donazione ad Amnesty international
Mostra alla sala 90 Pacifici
Forlì Donazione ad Avis
Mostra a Palazzo Albertini
Forlì Donazione all’Associazione Fiorini
mostra alla galleria “La Contrada”
1999
Bratislawa “Espressioni d’arte Contemporanea”
pittori forlivesi
Padova Arte Fiera di Padova
Galleria Artepiù
Forlì “Pittori a Forlì”
Chiosco S. Mercuriale
2000
Forlì “Espressioni d’arte Contemporanea”
Casa Braschi
Milano “Figurattiva”
Forte Crest
a cura di Stefania Carrozzini
Agenzia D’Ars
Ferrara “Cromaticos”
Castello Estense
a cura di Gabriele Turola e del Prof. Paolo Orsatti (Pro Art)
Forlì “Un ponte fra i popoli per la pace”
Sala 90 Pcifici
a cura del Coordinamento Nazionale Enti locali per la Pace
Betlemme “Un ponte fra i popoli per la pace”
2001
Forlì “Mostra di pittori forlivesi”
Oratorio S. Sebastiano
2005
Forlì “Ritratto di artista, Pittori e Pasolini”
Omaggio a Per Paolo Pasolini
Festa Provinciale dell’Unità
&Mac195; Forlì “Tabula Picta”
Contemporanea Arte fiera Forlì
2009
Aqui terme “Una Modella per l’arte”
2010
Forlì “Omaggio ad Anna Magnani”
rassegna “16 corto”
Illustrazione – collettive
1988
Forlì “Caleidoscopio”
Fiera di Forlì
1993
Forlì “Exhibition”
Sala 90 Pacifici
a cura dell’Agenzia Menabò
1996
Trento “Illustrazione scientifica”
Studio d’Arte Andromeda
Fotografia – personali
1994
Bagnacavallo (RA) “Infrarosso”
spazio espositivo circuiti FIAF
1995
Ravenna “Paesaggi della memoria”
Spazio La Piramide
Forlì
“La stanza del pensiero”
sala S. Caterina
Presentazione audiovisivo
1996
Forlì “Riflessioni in bianco e nero”
spazio “Green Pub”
1999
Forlì “Sogni all’infrarosso”
Spazio Endas
Fotografia – collettive
1986
Forlì Concorso nazionale Fiaf
Palazzo Albertini
dal 1987
al 1999
Forlì “Fotografi forlivesi”
mostra annuale
Sala 90 Pacifici
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