Carlo Romiti was born in 1953 in Castelfiorentino
(Fi).
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in
Florence.
Since 1987 he has directed the Theater Laboratory
of the Visual Arts Center of the Municipality
of Certaldo (Fi).
He collaborated with a research group on the expressive
activities of the Faculty of Magisterium
of the University of Florence for the realization of
educational texts. Has held courses on painting
techniques for the Didactic Section of the Uffizi
and at the Museum of Prehistory in Florence.
He leds a pictorial research on the chromaticity of
the lands where he lives, a peculiar feature of his
works. In fact, Romiti has been painting for years
with the lands that he himself is searching for.
Painting begins at the same moment when an embankment
is scraped and, with the hand, collects
the first handfuls of earth. The continuation of an
ancient technique of millennia and the continuous
research on color and its applications, are a
source of inspiration. Sometimes it is the earth itself,
with its different shades, to suggest the work,
in an alternation of priorities between subject and
color. The earth, ground by hand in stone mortars,
is mixed with water, egg or various glues, but
also with linseed oil. The use of this technique can
only find confirmation in the environment and in
the artist's life choices: a measured isolation in the
countryside between San Gimignano and Volterra.
His horses, his dogs and in the nearby wood roe
and wild boar are, together with the landscape,
the favorite subjects and the means to find the
ancestral part that is in each of us.
Romiti has exhibited his works in numerous galleries
and public spaces, both in Italy and abroad,
both in personal and group exhibitions.
His first personal show in 1979 at the Galleria Orlandi
in Prato.
The international experience began in 1991 at the
Maison Visinand in Montreaux (Switzerland) and
in Geneva, then also in Germany (Berlin, Hannover,
Sollingen, Heidelberg, Sassenberg), in London, in
Kazakhstan, in Luxembourg and in New York.
In Italy he has exhibited in collective and personal
exhibitions throughout the Peninsula.
Romiti lives in a farmhouse in the countryside of
Gambassi Terme (Fi) where he has his studio.
Carlo Romiti
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