dolce-oro-denso-2- Photography by Renato Marcialis

For over forty years Renato Marcialis has been a photographer specialized in the food and wine sector.
In 1970 the great adventure of a still unaware image artist began. He begins working in the shop where he has the opportunity to observe in the field the work of two photographers specialized in corporate meetings and weddings in high-class Milan, where dream villas and fairytale lunches are the order of the day.
After two years he changes studio and is "promoted" to printer by a photographer specialized in industrial shots: chandeliers, toys and gift items. In the meantime, his older brother Riccardo, already an established art director, began a new adventure in food photography and in 1976 proposed Renato a collaboration that would last ten years.
He subsequently decided to open his own studio and in the following five years he photographed everything: from fashion to reportage, from still-life to industrial shots to understand what his sector will be in the future. In 1992 he abandoned everything to specialize solely and exclusively in gastronomy. He collaborated in the creation of around 100 books, countless recipe books and catalogues. He has personalized services for almost all gastronomy editorial offices. Public recognition arrives: he appears in the "inserts" of specialized photography magazines, he is awarded in Venice with colleagues Oliviero Toscani and Vittorio Storaro and in the same year he also wins the Golden Mamiya in Numana The step towards art is short. From an experimentation with light, “Caravaggio in cucina” was born.
...and putting the brush away, I drew with a ray of light, shapes and colors, also hidden by an immeasurable darkness.

Nothing better than this concise sentence explains the photographic technique of my images.
The typical painter's brush soaked in colours, in this case is replaced by an identical brush from which instead of colours, a ray of light emerges with which I illuminate, where I deem appropriate, the subjects positioned in an accurate composition.
A further peculiarity is the choice of the support on which they are printed: fine art canvas which, together with the photographic technique and the application of a protective varnish applied by hand, creates a slightly striated surface caused by the bristles of the brush and often leads those who look at these images to mistake them for real oil paintings.
They remind me of the great Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio, where the revolution lies in the naturalism of his work, expressed in the elements of his paintings and in the atmospheres, in which the plasticity of the figures is highlighted by the particular lighting which theatrically underlines the volumes of the subjects and they they suddenly emerge from the darkness of the scene.

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1956
• Artistic domains: Represented by a Gallery,
• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists Artists presented by a gallery