Senza titolo (1972) Drawing by Gian Carlo Riccardi

Gian Carlo Riccardi (Frosinone 21 October 1933 - Frosinone 07 February 2015) was a painter, caricaturist, actor and theater director, sculptor, musician, teacher of costume and art history, writer and author of public and urban planning works.

Defined by the art critic Enrico Crispolti as a "multimedia artist", Riccardi was an artist capable of practicing interdisciplinarity and at the same time finding a link between the various artistic expressions he practiced.

After obtaining his classical high school diploma, in 1961 he graduated with honors in Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in via Ripetta. During his academic period he was a student of Toti Scialoja and Mario Rivosecchi. After a few years, he obtained a diploma in Theater and Film Direction at the Cinecittà Experimental Center in front of a commission chaired by the Taviani brothers and the art history professor Maria Cremisini.

In the same period he created numerous caricatures for satirical magazines such as Il Travaso delle Idee, Marc'Aurelio, L'uomoarancio, Il Bertoldo, Simplicissimus, Il Borghese, La Tribuna Illustrata and Il Becco Giallo. At the same time he is involved in the creation of sets for Rai television programmes, where he works as assistant to the set designers Giorgio Aragno and Cesarini da Senigallia.

Riccardi's literary criticism is dotted with the testimonies of prominent figures including: Enrico Crispolti, Alberto Moravia, Cesare Zavattini, Filiberto Menna, Franco Cavallo, Stefano Docimo, Elio Pagliarani, Angelo Maria Ripellino, Sergio Amidei, Vito Riviello, Giuseppe Bonaviri , Domenico Purificato, Umberto Mastroianni, Libero De Libero, Franco Miele, Maria Pia Fusco, Mario Lunetta, Angela Pastorino, Duilio Morosini, Nino Ferrero, Jolena Baldini, Alfonso Gatto, Michele Biancale, Aggeo Savioli, Piero Scarpa, Dario Micacchi, Nello Ponente , Luigi Montanarini, Giuseppe Sciortino, Costanzo Costantini, Pietro Favari, Giorgio Coletti, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Cinzia Baldazzi, Alfio Borghese, Rocco Zani, Piero Umiliani and others.

Riccardi appears in the Bolaffi catalogs and in numerous art and culture magazines, including Artecontro, Le Arti, La Fiera Letteraria, Flash Art, in encyclopedias such as the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Artists Ed. UNEDI Rome, the International Encyclopedic Dictionary of Art Contemporary 1999/2000 Ed. Alba Ferrara, the Encyclopedia of entertainment Ed. SEI Turin, Modern art Ed. Medusa, Milan, L'elite 2000 Selection of Italian art Ed. L'elite Varese etc.

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1933
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary Italian Artists