1. What are the foundations of your research (Art Identity)?
Loss of the space-time dimension, perceptive ambiguity, luminescence and darkness. The visible and the invisible…
2. Who are the artists who have guided you in your research?
If I had to retrace my training among the many I would say: Masaccio, Beato Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Turner, Sironi, Morandi, Ben Nicholson, Gino De Dominicis, Then I was lucky enough to know: Nunzio, Perilli, Cotani, Alviani, Castellani , Bonalumi, Pinelli, Verna, and others. But reflection with philosophy will always remain the fundamental part of my work on the visible and the invisible.
3. Define yourself as a human being using three adjectives.
3 adjectives: I have only two, hypersensitive and indefinite.
4. According to your vision, where is contemporary art going and where would you like it to go?
Where is he going? It is sad to say, but it will be enough to follow the logic of the art system…Where would I like it to go? Needless to say... where am I going... (o.n.d.r. laughter) I want to close with Beckett: "the worst in front until it makes you laugh"
Greetings, Paolo Radi.
In Paolo Radi's works, we perceive a minimal language centered on the analysis of the Perspex surface, which thanks to his intervention comes to extend forcefully and to reveal the light itself that is hidden under the apparent layer. The two-dimensional becomes three-dimensional and sometimes the shapes seem to appear from the void, from nothing, blurred by time and a hidden depth. We find a safe, resistant and at times liquid plasticity of the material, which extends into space.
Paolo Radi, in 2002 was invited to carry out his work at the Sculpture Space Foundation in Utica, New York.
In the same year he won the Youth/Sculpture Award of the National Academy of San Luca in Rome.
In 2003 he was invited to the XIV Quadrennial "Anteprima Napoli", Palazzo Reale.
In 2005 he took part in the exhibition Lucio Fontana and his legacy. In 2006 he participates, by invitation, in the X International Architecture Exhibition-Biennale of Venice (New Italian Pavilion for VEMA-“The city of the future”) where he exhibits Alam a sculpture inspired by the theme of hibernation. In 2009 he took part in the exhibition Cromofobie Paths of black and white in contemporary Italian art” held at the Ex Aurum in Pescara.
Recent exhibitions include Experimenta (the Farnesina collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and Springs in White (New Delhi, Kolkata and Bangkok), created on the initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 2012 he was invited, together with Emanuela Fiorelli, by the Italian Cultural Institute of Lima, to exhibit at the Centro-Culturale Visual Art Gallery Ccori Wasi Universidad Ricardo Palma. The exhibition, Emanuela Fiorelli and Paolo Radi, In the sign and in the light, presents a large number of works from the recent career of the two artists.
In 2016 the exhibition "The Sharper Perception, Dynamic Art, Optical and Beyond" at the GR Gallery in New York and the solo exhibition at the MAC Museo Arte Contemporanea in Lissone where he presented his latest work on "L'opera discronica".
In 2018 it is the exhibition in the Museums of San Salvatore in Lauro, curated by the Ferrarin Arte Gallery of Legnago.
In 2022 he was invited to the Changwon Sculpture Biennial.
He will soon be present in Bolzano for a personal exhibition at Antonella Cattani Contemporary Art, where his recent works will be visible.
