Enrico Tealdi
Enrico Tealdi, 'AMOS', 2024, mixed media on board prepared of gessoing, 26 x 19.5cm
The faces emerge from a sort of depth and their presence in the picture has a sculpted nature: from the black background (a grasping element which is apparently mobile and seems capable of releasing, reclaiming, and of swallowing again that part of the visible face); from the light (that seems to act in contrast/synergy with the black); from the (many) dots and brushstrokes on the surface. The white strokes, now more defined, descriptive, and fleeting, punctuate the image in many places. To me they seem to have an ambiguous role: when more mimetic, they indicate a reference (the statuettes and the material they are made of –plaster, a cracked, chipped, broken material), and when more indefinite, they are simple spots and brushstrokes fluttering across the surface.
ENRICO TEALDI (Cuneo, 1976)
Public collection includes: Collezione del Quirinale, Collezione Fondazione Bartoli Felter, Collezione MAR (Museo Arte Ravenna).
Main solo shows include: Manifesto, curated by Davide Ferri, Société Interludio (Cambiano, 2024); L’ Accordo, Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea Gallery, curated by Giulia De Giorgi (Roma, 2022), Halos, Palazzina Pia, Firenze, curated by Serena Trinchero (Firenze 2022), Concerto per carillon, Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea Gallery, (Roma, 2019), Trasfiguration Mode, curated by Antonio Zimarino, Palazzo Acquaviva, (Atri, 2019), Si cercano parole che nessuno dirà, curated by Davide Caroli, Museo MAR (Ravenna, 2016), Diagonale diffusa, curated by Veronica Liotti, Spazio Yellow, (Varese, 2015), Golfo Mistico, Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea Gallery (Roma, 2014).
Among his group shows are: Into the woods, Galerie Tamenaga (Paris, 2025), ATELIER.IT: un viatico nelle pratiche pittoriche, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Istituto Villa Adriana e Villa d’Este – VILLÆ (Tivoli, 2024); Il tempo della comunanza, curated by Olga Gambari, La Castiglia Castello di Saluzzo (Saluzzo, 2024), Come in un giardino, curated by Federica Terone, Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea Gallery (Roma, 2024), Nocturnal Ballads, curated by Lorenza Boisi, CHASSIS (Torino, 2024), Pittura Italiana oggi, curated by Damiano Gullì, Triennale di Milano (Milano, 2023), Volti. La pittura italiana di ritratto nel XX secolo, curated by Luca Beatrice, Villa del Balbianello, (Como, 2023), I dialoghi della Luna, Raucci Santamaria Project Gallery (Milano, 2022), Citéra, curated by Simona Squadrito, Société Interludio (Torino, 2020), The Milky Way, Franco Noero Gallery, (Torino, 2020), Nero Fortissimo, Antichissimo Rosa, a curated by Lorenza Boisi, MIDEC, (Laveno, 2018), CBM Art Prize, curated by Area creativa 42, Galleria Chemistry, (Praga, 2018), Studio Freud, curated by Fabio Carnaghi, (Milano, 2019), Osmosi, Museo del Territorio, (Biella, 2017), Dehor, a curated by Claudio Libero Pisano, Cisterna romana, (Atri, 2016), Empatema, Studi Aperti, (Milano, 2016), Koffer Kunst, curated by Veronica Liotti, Atelier Nele Waldert, (Dusseldorf, 2015), At Work, curated by Katia Anguelova, Fondation Donwahi pour l’Art Contemporain, (Abidjan II Plateaux, Costa d’Avorio, 2014), Italia Ora, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Museo H.C. Andersen (Roma, 2011), DOC, Denominazione Origine Contemporaneo, curated by Lucrecia Vega Gramunt, Centro Culturale Borges, (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2011), Once Upon Today, curated by Teresa Iannotta, Hommes Gallery, (Rotterdam, Nederland, 2009), Italian-Restyle, curated by Barbara Fragogna, Arthouse Tacheles, (Berlino, Germany, 2009).