Gerico

Italy, 1946

Gerico was born in Somma Lombarda in 1946. The following year his family moved to Milan.

Self-taught, he begun his career in 1969.

In those years Milan was living a great economic boom and technologic development; Gerico felt attracted by the problems concerning this and joined the “New Figuration”  researches, linked to the relationship between Human being, the machine and the consumerism.

This research goes on until 1981, culminating with a great exhibition in Genova.

Since 1982 his paintings articulate on different iconographic levels, “Performance” and “Living Museum”, based on sceonographic  shoots form the antique paintings and since 1989 with “Natura in posa”, he takes as subjects, natural elements realised in an extreme realism united to the maximum artificiality. He takes part to many exhibitions in Italy and abroad.

“…These still life paintings are frontally exposed on the perspective plan of the axle against the united surface of the fund, with the studied formal equilibrium that the statues of the pediment of a Greek temple have.

Gerico makes to speak the things themselves, without bawdiness, he knows how to give back pulp to what fixed with his photographic brush, magic brush with which he knows how to complete the miracle of the tangible epifany, in fact, because of the illusionistic effect of the images, the spectator is caught by the impulse to lengthen the hand to take a radish, a pepper or a leaf of salad.