Riflessi d'oro (2010) Painting by Enzo Archetti

Enzo Archetti was born in Monticelli Brusati (Brescia) in 1946. He lives in Brescia. He began to be interested in art during his secondary school years and after obtaining his master's degree he continued his cultural education by graduating in Modern Literature.
In the same period, and without interrupting his university studies, he attended the 'Carrara Academy of Bergamo the drawing and etching courses, under the direction of Trento Longaretti.
As regards the use of colour, it was a personal research as well as the fusion of different techniques.
Until 1990 he divided his time between artistic activity and teaching literary subjects in public schools in the province of Brescia.
In 1973 he entered the artistic panorama with the first exhibition in Brescia; in the immediately following years he exhibited in various Italian cities including Milan, Verona, Modena, Brindisi, Florence, Rome and in 1991 in Tokyo in the Forni Gallery. In the nineties, what would become his artistic language took shape, determined by the fusion of different materials, such as canvases, gauze, carpets, ropes, rusty iron plates, with figurative elements.
From 2002 the collaborative relationships with Artequadri began, which will propose the works by Archetti in many Italian and foreign galleries.
In 2004 he exhibited at the Academie Libanaise in Beirut and in the same year one of his works entered the collection of the Modern Art Museum in Kuwait City.
Painting for Archetti it is one of the most effective means of describing oneself, others and the world. At the beginning of his artistic activity, in the 70s, he painted the real, then, until the early nineties, he compared himself with the great artists of the past, in particular with Piero della Francesca and subsequently combined his figurative with the informal keeping the female figure with cobalt blue eyes as the dominant element. Archetti has always been attracted by large canvases, capable of covering entire walls, it is a passion that led him to set up a space with large supports for the creation of works of considerable size. In this laboratory studio he created: in 2005 "La vita che passa" of 50 m2 located in a public place in Brescia and in 2007 "La grande Parete" of 7.20 m x 7.30 m high, housed in the hall of the " Centro delle Idee" of Pandino (Cremona).
In 2006 he published an artist's book "Frammenti d'infinto" with the publisher Serra Tarantola: it is an illustrated story with 44 pictorial works that develops like a large painting of over 100 pages in which Archetti tries to decipher the Infinite.
Since 2009 they have begun collaborative relationships with galleries in Germany, including: Galerie Wehr-Dusseldorf, Galerie Rusch-Hamburg, Galerie Bilder Bingold-Nuremberg, Galerie Kaphammel -Braunschweig.
In 2011 he held a personal exhibition in the East Gallery Castle in Beijing.
In 2013 he published “Signs that tell dreams”: a journey into the informal.

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1946
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists