Federico Guida Biography
Federico Guida (Milan, 1969) Born a painter, naturally devoted to the use of oil and canvas. An innate passion, perhaps transmitted through inheritance (his father was also an artist) which, from the beginning, developed essentially on representation, was formed in Milan, where he attended the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and at the same time became Aldo's assistant Mondino. After graduating, he began his pictorial research which for some years has focused on the use of almost monochrome color and on the human body represented with different values of the human figure. Guida's portraits, like his twisted or struggling bodies, are the result of a continuous, obsessive meditation on people who are particularly familiar to him. His work moves between meanings and senses, between compositional and linguistic centers of gravity, in the assembly of fabrics, materials, geometric motifs and different shades. Among the collective participations we remember the Durini Prize in 2002 and the Cairo Communication Prize, where he won the first prize, both at the Museo della Permanente in Milan.
