MINOTTO
IL MACELLAIO GIUSEPPE
2008, Oil on canvas, 125x90cm | 49.21x35.43in
IN POSA PER UN RITRATTO
2008, Oil on canvas, 130x80cm | 51.18x31.50in
INTERNO CON FIGURA
2009, Oil on canvas, 100x100cm | 39.37x39.37in
INTERNO CON FIGURA
2009, Oil on canvas, 170x120cm | 66.93x47.24in
INTERNO E LUCI
2023, Oil on board, 60x40cm | 23.62x15.75in
LA TAVOLA IMBANDITA
2011, Oil on canvas, 60x80cm | 23.62x31.50in
LUCI D'INVERNO
2023, Oil on board, 60x40cm | 23.62x15.75in
NUDO IN CONTROLUCE
2013, Oil on canvas, 160x100cm | 62.99x39.37in
STAZIONE DI SOSTA NEL CAMMINO DELLA GIORNATA
2008, Oil on canvas, 120x110cm | 47.24x43.31in
UNTITLED I
Oil on canvas, 110x110cm | 39.37x43.31in
UNTITLED II
Oil on canvas, 110x110cm | 39.37x43.31in
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Raffaele Minotto is an Italian artist, born in
Padua in 1969.
He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, where he graduated in 1991. He
devoted himself to painting, engraving, through etching and dry-point
techniques, and also to drawing.
His favorite subjects are scenes from everyday life that depict ordinary people
in common places and visions of interiors reminiscent of sumptuous Venetian
palaces.
The painting style is unique and consists of a mix of techniques and references:
on one hand you can notice fast brushstrokes and very dense patches of color
that he takes from the Impressionists and Post Impressionists like Van Gogh; on
the other, especially for the interior scenes, there is a careful and in-depth
study of light, which has in Caravaggio its greatest master. In addition, his
way of painting, especially regarding the yield of the edges and the light
rays, is influenced by the engraving techniques: sharp lines, perfectly
straight, which seem to almost cut the space and the canvas.
Since 1995, Minotto has participated in group
and solo exhibitions in Italy and Europe; he has taken part in important art
fairs in Italy, Europe, the United States and Asia.
In 2009 he was selected for "Contemplazioni", an exhibition that
focused on contemporary Italian painting, curated by Alberto Agazzani.
In 2011 he was invited to exhibit at the 54th Biennale Arte of Venice, in the
Veneto Regional Section.
In 2017 Canale 5 (an important Italian TV channel) dedicated to him an episode of
“TG5 Anti-Impressioni su tela”, a special heading focused on the world of art, in
which the artist gave also an interview.
The sign and the color, the charcoal, the colored paste. The media mix and overlap: they form the syntax of the image, the painting.