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Pietro Ruffo, elegance without fuss

2022-11-27T06:15:43.758Z


With his gentle gaze, he is as beautiful as a Renaissance portrait, like the Portrait of a Man painted by Titian in 1523 and kept in Paris, at the Louvre Museum.


Born in 1978 in Rome, he continues to live and work in the Eternal City.

He studied architecture at university, before being selected in 2005 for a research fellowship at the Italian Academy for higher studies in America, at Columbia University in New York in 2010.

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“I am an architect by training.

Then painter, draftsman, by vocation.”

In his latest Parisian exhibition, which has just ended at the Galerie Italienne, rue du Louvre, his large formats which combine ink, oil paint, cutouts of paper mounted on canvas, evoke the Anthropocene in a skilful telescoping of motifs .

They challenge, by the superposition of maps, skulls, species listed as in the museum, graphics and vines, by their voluntarily outdated charm, the very idea of ​​time, our common denominator.

A form of poetic scale that measures the life of man.

It is both painted and drawn, traced and glued, human...

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