Roberto Viesi
Roberto Viesi was born in Chiari (Bs) in 1953.
After obtaining his artistic maturity in 1971, he began working as an illustrator and cartoonist for well-known Italian publishing houses.
At the same time, he undertook an artistic study with oils and ink drawings; the ironic or satirical vein that fuels his comic strip stories can also be glimpsed in several of these works in which fat prelates sleep peacefully in the half-light of stylized pulpits or grant quick blessings to poor fishermen in exchange for freshly caught fish.
In the 1980 he obtained a diploma in advertising graphic design at the Scuola degli Artefici in Brera, in Milan. The graphic activity in the following decades almost completely occupied Viesi's time and creativity. In 2010 he published "Francesco and the Wolf", a comic book for children; the following year "The earth does not turn, you beasts!" always in comics, dedicated to Giovanni Paneroni amateur astronomer from Lombardy. Since 2011 he has published the comic strip "Ürgòt, the last of the ancient Camuni" in the Giornale della Valcamonica.
In recent years he has undertaken a study that leads him to create new graphics with a mixed technique that includes manual drawing with pens and pencils , subsequent scanning, insertion and PC processing of the colour, manual finishing of each of the digitally printed specimens in small runs, with acrylic, enamels and pastels. These recent works summarize some of Viesi's professional experiences: the illustrated story, the chromatic sensitivity, the graphic synthesis with which he tends to simplify figures and natural elements, the balance required and expressed in the creation of a symbol, a logo.< br />Reality and myth face each other and merge, as well as religiosity, superstition, ancient beliefs. The figurative translates into icon and graphic code. The partly unconscious creative path of the author leads him to seek/return to a "childish" vision of environments, living beings of various and indefinite nature and to re-charge them with that magic and mystery that often during our path towards adulthood fade, replaced by a utilitarian valorisation, when not trivialized or filtered by cynicism and mistrust. In any case, the contents are deliberately, and almost always, used in a gregarious function, aimed at the primary pleasure of composing small concerts of lines, curves, hatches, on textures with soft shades that blend imperceptibly. Thus they could be abstract drawings, but the author does not want to definitively give up the possibility of suggesting some recognizable icons and of letting the viewer "enter" into the scene represented, also leaving him the freedom to poetically personalize them with his own sensitivity and his deepest experiences.
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Biography
Roberto Viesi was born in Chiari (Bs) in 1953.
After obtaining his artistic maturity in 1971, he began working as an illustrator and cartoonist for well-known Italian publishing houses.
At the same time, he undertook an artistic study with oils and ink drawings; the ironic or satirical vein that fuels his comic strip stories can also be glimpsed in several of these works in which fat prelates sleep peacefully in the half-light of stylized pulpits or grant quick blessings to poor fishermen in exchange for freshly caught fish.
In the 1980 he obtained a diploma in advertising graphic design at the Scuola degli Artefici in Brera, in Milan. The graphic activity in the following decades almost completely occupied Viesi's time and creativity. In 2010 he published "Francesco and the Wolf", a comic book for children; the following year "The earth does not turn, you beasts!" always in comics, dedicated to Giovanni Paneroni amateur astronomer from Lombardy. Since 2011 he has published the comic strip "Ürgòt, the last of the ancient Camuni" in the Giornale della Valcamonica.
In recent years he has undertaken a study that leads him to create new graphics with a mixed technique that includes manual drawing with pens and pencils , subsequent scanning, insertion and PC processing of the colour, manual finishing of each of the digitally printed specimens in small runs, with acrylic, enamels and pastels. These recent works summarize some of Viesi's professional experiences: the illustrated story, the chromatic sensitivity, the graphic synthesis with which he tends to simplify figures and natural elements, the balance required and expressed in the creation of a symbol, a logo.< br />Reality and myth face each other and merge, as well as religiosity, superstition, ancient beliefs. The figurative translates into icon and graphic code. The partly unconscious creative path of the author leads him to seek/return to a "childish" vision of environments, living beings of various and indefinite nature and to re-charge them with that magic and mystery that often during our path towards adulthood fade, replaced by a utilitarian valorisation, when not trivialized or filtered by cynicism and mistrust. In any case, the contents are deliberately, and almost always, used in a gregarious function, aimed at the primary pleasure of composing small concerts of lines, curves, hatches, on textures with soft shades that blend imperceptibly. Thus they could be abstract drawings, but the author does not want to definitively give up the possibility of suggesting some recognizable icons and of letting the viewer "enter" into the scene represented, also leaving him the freedom to poetically personalize them with his own sensitivity and his deepest experiences.
- Nationality: ITALY
- Date of birth : 1953
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists
Influences
Education
1977 - 1980
Diploma Scuola degli Artefici - Brera
Milano,
Lombardia,
Italy
1967 - 1971
Maturità artistica
Bergamo,
Lombardia,
Italy
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Achievements
Collective Expositions
2015
Artisti Dell'agro Bresciano - Collettiva Alla Sala Bcc Agrobresciano
Brescia,
Lombardia,
Italy
2015
Roberto Viesi, Fausto Salvoni, Monastero S. Pietro In Lamosa
Provaglio d'Iseo,
Lombardia,
Italy
2015
Villa Morando
Lograto,
Lombardia,
Italy
2014
Collettiva Al Musil
Rodengo Saiano,
Lombardia,
Italy
2014
"Ossimoro" - Collettiva Sala Ss. Filippo E Giacomo
Brescia,
Lombardia,
Italy
2013
"Arte: Fantasia O Realtà Del Mondo"
Edolo,
Lombardia,
Italy
2013
"Natale A San Rocco - Dall'annunciazione Alla Candelora" - Chiesa Di San Rocco
Chiari,
Lombardia,
Italy
2012
"Sic Gnari En Ria Ala Castrina" - Palazzo Sonzogni
Rovato,
Lombardia,
Italy
Solo Expositions
2022
Personale Di Grafica E Pittura
Limone sul Garda,
Lombardia,
Italy
2022
Personale Di Grafica E Pittura
Malcesine, Palazzo dei Capitani,
Veneto,
Italy
2021
Grafica E Pittura - Sala San Carlo
Limone sul Garda,
Lombardia,
Italy
2021
Mostra Personale
Malcesine, Palazzo dei Capitani,
Veneto,
Italy
2019
Palazzo Dei Capitani: 1 - 7 Luglio
Malcesine sul Garda,
Italy
2019
Sala S. Carlo: 25 Maggio -1 Giugno
Limone sul Garda,
Italy
2018
Roberto Viesi, Graphic Artist Exhibition - Palazzo Dei Capitani
Malcesine sul Garda,
Veneto,
Italy
2018
Personale - Sala San Carlo
Limone,
Lombardia,
Italy
2016
"Incanto", Torre Del Vescovo
Pisogne,
Lombardia,
Italy
2014
Personale Di Grafica - Casa Torre
Gottolengo,
Lombardia,
Italy
2013
Rassegna Mirandola Arte 2013/14
Mirandola,
Emilia Romagna,
Italy
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