Giuseppe Linardi Biography
Giuseppe Linardi was born in Buenos Aires in 1971. At a very young age he moved to Follonica, in Tuscany, where he lives and works. He attended the Grosseto Art High School and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Although the first phase of the artist's work was dedicated to hyperrealism, his style developed in a more spontaneous way, passing through various techniques and subjects: from still lifes and landscapes to large hyperrealistic portraits, from drip painting techniques to sculptures and installations.
In recent years, fully convinced that every idea must be developed through adequate means, the artist has carried out various projects, always moving on the border between abstraction and figuration.
“Decoding” is the key word in the artist's pictorial work. The images he painted in the past, trying to make them as real as possible, almost palpable, are now dissected, dismembered and reduced to the limit of figuration. That painting, so perfect, executed in an almost maniacal manner, now explodes and shatters into brushstrokes. These signs of schizophrenia, called "codes" by the artist himself (hence the name "decoding" given to his technique), are the constituent elements of his new artistic research. It is a pictorial technique that allows him to paint more freely than in the past, when he followed the canons of hyperrealist academic painting. His current technique is the result of long research, experimentation on subjects, deconstruction and reconstruction of images.
All the images he paints with this technique require a profound reading ability, a visual effort that is rewarded by the discovery of the subject, which slowly reveals itself and is continually enriched with new details. Giuseppe Linardi's works are an optical experience not to be missed. His luminous canvases are sources of disconcerting optical sensations such as images of magical eyes or interactive screens.
In front of his paintings the viewer remains hypnotized by the decoding of the signs that take him back to the chaos of certain aspects of daily life. The artist's skillful manipulation of pigments transforms static images into vivid animations that become metaphors for the intricate design of the universe.
