Chromatic brightness, simple shapes, cartoon's draft with deeper, pregnant meanings: these are just
few features of Raimondo Burgio's works or, as he calls them, “graphic marks”. Their main themes
undoubtedly demonstrate that Raimondo, besides his passion for painting and drawing, has also a personal philosophical approach towards Ar t, which leads him through a long series of experimentations and researches. Raimondo, born in 1968, began his career during the highschool, working as car toonist
for one of the most famous Sicilian daily.
After his degree in architecture, he worked as graphic and interior designer for many Sicilian companies and
After his degree in architecture, he worked as graphic and interior designer for many Sicilian companies and
institutions. But his travel through ar ts wasn't instinctive, it star ted from a cultural and graphic research, waiting for a philosophical structure to understand the surroundings. He thought about what and how make something different, in this age of iperrealism and liber ty hall which paradoxically is an
obstacle to arts.
His first exhibition was in occasion of “Avanguardia Futurista in Sicilia” Festival, where his works were exposed nearby the famous painting of Guttuso “La Vucciria”. When he make art, Raimondo tries to confront with themes with a strong ethical connotations. He faces them using allegories and calling aesthetic canons into question, defining new thoughts and shapes. But this isn't a provocation: it's just a way to understand the reality by means of symbols, in which the ar tist himself found something Freaudian.
According by Jacques Derrida (philosopher and sociologist), «men aren't pure instinct, even if they are full of drives», so ever ything on Raimondo's works is thoughtful.
On his graphic marks there are a lot of references to classical world, resources and cues for new ideas. There are also undeniable Pop elements. Even with different features, Raimondo's style recalls Keith Haring works. His graphic and architectural experiences are a resource to surpass the appearances, to hidden horizons of communication, finding a new balance between being and appearance, without that nihilistic point of view which characterizes the conflict of Nietzsche's Apollonian and Dionysian.
His first exhibition was in occasion of “Avanguardia Futurista in Sicilia” Festival, where his works were exposed nearby the famous painting of Guttuso “La Vucciria”. When he make art, Raimondo tries to confront with themes with a strong ethical connotations. He faces them using allegories and calling aesthetic canons into question, defining new thoughts and shapes. But this isn't a provocation: it's just a way to understand the reality by means of symbols, in which the ar tist himself found something Freaudian.
According by Jacques Derrida (philosopher and sociologist), «men aren't pure instinct, even if they are full of drives», so ever ything on Raimondo's works is thoughtful.
On his graphic marks there are a lot of references to classical world, resources and cues for new ideas. There are also undeniable Pop elements. Even with different features, Raimondo's style recalls Keith Haring works. His graphic and architectural experiences are a resource to surpass the appearances, to hidden horizons of communication, finding a new balance between being and appearance, without that nihilistic point of view which characterizes the conflict of Nietzsche's Apollonian and Dionysian.
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