Roberto Ghezzi

Roberto Ghezzi was born in Cortona in 1978, where he currently lives and works. His training began within the family sculpture studio and was perfected at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. He begins to exhibit in the nineties and his beginnings are linked to painting. All of his production is based on a strong interest in the natural landscape, which, at the beginning, he investigates both through pictorial representation and through experiments "in the field", in direct contact with the natural environment. This is a study carried out over the course of a decade, which, starting from a scientific approach of in-depth examination of organic reality, takes on a conceptual form through matter. On the occasion of his solo exhibition Physis, at the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Arezzo, he presents for the first time to the public works related to the aforementioned research, matured over the years. Unpublished creations, which arise from studies and experiments on natural places, often uncontaminated, and whose title Naturografie © embodies the founding concept of both the final result and the process. The latter is an integral part of the work, on a journey to the origin of the relationship between artist and nature, where the support is a space for communion between them. The artist creates with nature, but at the same time supervises every phase of creation: from the determination of the initial variables, to the time factor, up to the final form. Prizes and artistic residencies are linked to this research. Among the prizes obtained: ORA Award 2016, ArtApp Artist Contest 2017, ArteamCup Residence 2018, Artist Residence Setup 2019, ArteamCup Vanilla Edizioni 2019, Environmental Art, Venticontemporanei 2019 and Rocco Guglielmo Foundation Artist Residences 2020. Many artistic residences, national and international, with related environmental installations: Alaska (2015), Iceland (2017), Italy (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021), South Africa (2018), Tunisia (2018), Norway (2019), Argentina and Patagonia (2020). Since 1992 he has exhibited in institutional venues, both in Italy and abroad, including: Civic Museum of Palazzo della Penna, Perugia; Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art, Arezzo; Lapidarium Museum, Novigrad; End of the World Museum, Ushuaia; Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art of San Donà di Piave; Natural History Museum, Pisa; BRAND, Catanzaro; Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence; Battersea Park, London; Cariperugia Arte Foundation; Cloister of Bramante, Rome; House of the Carraresi, Treviso; Pu-Dong Library, Shanghai; Oceanographic Museum, Tunis.