Milan, Studio Masiero dedicates an exhibition to Guido Baragli

Figurative interlude for Studio Masiero in Milan, which has always been a place for proposals related to abstractionism, for a Sicilian artist, Guido Baragli (Palermo, 1962), a painter known for his research on color and light, experimenting with different techniques and investigating all the topical subjects in the history of painting. From his first exhibitions in the early 1980s to his latest retrospective in 2019 at Palermo’s Palazzo Riso, Baragli has always presented the urgency of painting through the precision of the sign and the gestural expressiveness in the application of color.

More than 20 works, many of them large in size, are presented in this exhibition Charcoals and Plush. Sheets drawn in charcoal and finished a la guache, where one of the most recognized transactional objects takes shape and where, as we read in Elisabetta Longari ’s text, “the cycle also implies with all evidence, through the choice of subjects, the atavistic and profound mechanism of attachment to objects that are charged with the symbolic and affective function of establishing connections and filling in lacks.” The pictorial restitution of Baragli’s vision is alienating and appealing, as the artist himself says, “plush reassuring and disturbing at the same time, of a metaphysical and neonaïf simplicity.”

Guido Baragli has lived in Palermo since 2007 with a studio in Mondello. Since 2006 he has been the world ambassador of GAM in Palermo. From September 20 to December 1, 2019, the anthological exhibition Guido Baragli, works since 1981, an attempt to show to the public the synthesis of thirty-eight years of artistic activity of the painter from Palermo, took place at the Palazzo Belmonte Riso, an artistic center of contemporary art in Sicily.

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Pictured: Guido Baragli, Carboncini and plush (2021), charcoal and guaches, cm. 100x70

Milan, Studio Masiero dedicates an exhibition to Guido Baragli

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