neo-Classical
Ricardo Cinalli
1948
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He has been referred to by world renowned art critique Brian Sewell as “this generations true master “ and has sold at Christie’s auction house for $88,000. Ricardo’s work is collected by the likes of Sylvester Stallone and influential people all around the world.
Ricardo creates timeless drawings and paintings of human and natural forms fusing his contemporary practice with a distinctive neo-Classical style. He captures the emotions as well as the form of his subjects with great dexterity and insight.
Born in Argentina in 1948, to an Italian father, Ricardo Cinalli has adopted Spitalfields in the East End of London as his second home, establishing himself on the London art scene from the 1980s with his striking layered paper drawings on a large scale, his theatre designs and his monumental frescoes inspired by the art of the Renaissance. Cinalli's Italian roots are unmistakably discerned in the avid interest he takes in mythological and allegorical figures clearly influenced by Michelangelo's muscular yet dynamic compositions for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling.
He completed a large fresco, The Mystic Net, at the Duomo di Terni in Umbria, Italy in 2007 and was still working on a giant fresco covering all the walls of a custom-built edifice in Punta del Este in Uruguay in 2010. Cinalli has exhibited extensively throughout South and North America, Europe and Russia and his work is in the collection of St Paul's Cathedral, London. A retrospectiveexhibition of Cinalli's work was held at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2006.
Amongst his public commissions he painted frescoes in the Londersborough Room in Alexandra Palace, Vintners Place in the City of London, the Argentinian Embassy and the main altar in the Chiesa del Redentore, Brixton.
He has created the set designs for Les Parents Terribles by Jean Cocteau for the National Theatre, London (1996), Daphnis and Chloe by Maurice Ravel at the Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro (1998) and Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires. Amongst his projects is the design for Cinderella at the Royal Opera House in London.
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1948
He has been referred to by world renowned art critique Brian Sewell as “this generations true master “ and has sold at Christie’s auction house for $88,000. Ricardo’s work is collected by the likes of Sylvester Stallone and influential people all around the world.
Ricardo creates timeless drawings and paintings of human and natural forms fusing his contemporary practice with a distinctive neo-Classical style. He captures the emotions as well as the form of his subjects with great dexterity and insight.
Born in Argentina in 1948, to an Italian father, Ricardo Cinalli has adopted Spitalfields in the East End of London as his second home, establishing himself on the London art scene from the 1980s with his striking layered paper drawings on a large scale, his theatre designs and his monumental frescoes inspired by the art of the Renaissance. Cinalli's Italian roots are unmistakably discerned in the avid interest he takes in mythological and allegorical figures clearly influenced by Michelangelo's muscular yet dynamic compositions for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling.
He completed a large fresco, The Mystic Net, at the Duomo di Terni in Umbria, Italy in 2007 and was still working on a giant fresco covering all the walls of a custom-built edifice in Punta del Este in Uruguay in 2010. Cinalli has exhibited extensively throughout South and North America, Europe and Russia and his work is in the collection of St Paul's Cathedral, London. A retrospectiveexhibition of Cinalli's work was held at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2006.
Amongst his public commissions he painted frescoes in the Londersborough Room in Alexandra Palace, Vintners Place in the City of London, the Argentinian Embassy and the main altar in the Chiesa del Redentore, Brixton.
He has created the set designs for Les Parents Terribles by Jean Cocteau for the National Theatre, London (1996), Daphnis and Chloe by Maurice Ravel at the Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro (1998) and Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires. Amongst his projects is the design for Cinderella at the Royal Opera House in London.
Contact us to discuss all available works
Images are for reference only
If you are interested in works by the artist please send us an inquiry and we shall come back to you. We work directly with the Studio.