Gallina alla cova (1999) Painting by Ranieri Wanderlingh

The simplicity and genuineness of primitivist forms release a powerful primordial energy and, with their brutal schematicity and their abstract character, seem to yearn for the recovery of an order, of a regulating law of reality that transcends the contingent to grasp the essential, at the moment in which the vision of the world becomes restless and confused. And all this plays a fundamental role in this phase of his painting that Wanderlingh himself defined as “Pop Romantic”: an immediate and impactful language, of mass media derivation (therefore “popular”), but which reiterates the importance of the instinctive and the original, of the genuine and the fantastic, of values ​​to be sought in one’s interiority, to respond to a chaotic postmodernity devoid of points of orientation.
Pasquale Fameli

Ranieri Wanderlingh, painter and sculptor was born in Rome in 1961, lives and works in Messina (Sicily)
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1984.
His art has gone through different periods: dreamlike neocubism, graffiti, psychoexpressionism, until arriving at the personal “Pop Romantic” style in the 90s.
From 1982 to today he has exhibited in numerous shows in Italy and abroad including: Messina, Taormina, Ragusa, Siena, Livorno, Rome, Bari, Padua, Milan, Bologna, Turin, Naples, Spoleto, Montreal, Paris, New York. In 1992 he exhibited at the Fiumara d’arte and collaborated with the patron Antonio Presti. In 1994, the art critic Lucio Barbera included one of his works in the Galleria d’arte contemporanea in Messina. In 2004 he was a member of the culture commission of the Municipality of Messina. In 2005 he created, on commission from the newspaper Gazzetta del sud, an 18 x 6 m sculpture on the seafront of the city of Messina, entitled “Fontana Bios”, a hymn to vital energy. In 2012 he held two anthological exhibitions at the Monte di Pietà in Messina and at the Castello di Milazzo, he was an artistic and landscape consultant in the feasibility study of the “Porto Verde”, a tourist port for the town of Spadafora. In 2014 he created mosaic works for the Municipality of Messina at the S. Filippo Cemetery. In 2015, in an exhibition at the Spadafora Castle, he was included by art critics Ivan Quaroni and Chiara Canali in the selection of 14 Sicilian painters who work in contemporary artistic research outside and inside the perimeter of the island.
In 2015 he created for the Municipality of Spadafora, with European funds, the innovative LabForma, the first experimental Museum-school-laboratory in Italy. In the same period he conceived and directed the first Festival of Sicilian contemporary art at the Spadafora Castle from June to December 2015. In 2016 he exhibited at the Provincial Modern Art Gallery of Messina on the occasion of the national day of the association of National Museums of Contemporary Art.

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1961
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary Italian Artists