Enzo Guaricci

Italy, 1945

Was born in Acquaviva delle Fonti; he studied scenery design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and then at Rome, where he developed his artistic formation and reached his early level of maturity.

In the early 70s he was active among the young artists of the “Nuova Figurazione Romana” group.

During this period he took part to several important exhibitions and he had personal shows in many Italian and foreign cities. Commissioned by UNESCO, he put up a commemorative monument in the town of Gibellina, Sicily. He designed stage-sets for the Petruzzelli Theatre in Bari and television logos for many public and private TV stations. In 1990 he gave up teaching in order to devote his full time exclusively to sculpture.

Elaborates, with a personal processing technique, Objects-Subjects of daily common life.
He clones it, reproducing a copy made by a mixture of marble powder and synthetic resins that make it as petrified, and more, “fossilized”, eated away by time, real archeological-symbolic finds of “as we were tomorrow”.
So in his work there is a strong time bewilderment, where Present replace Future and contemporary mixes up with Past.