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Oliviero Rainaldi

Oliviero Rainaldi was born in Caramanico Terme in 1956, currently lives and works in Rome. Between 1974 and 1977, takes the first three years of study at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice with Emilio Vedova. Later, with Fabio Mauri, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of L'Aquila. From the beginning in 1976, Rainaldi's work focuses on the human figure, investigated through the different languages of drawing, painting, sculpture and calcography techniques. Through the figure, its gesture and body language, the artist addresses the fundamental questions of human existence, rooted in religion and linked to archaic and medieval cultures.As in the cycles of works such as: Gisant, Caduti, Battesimi Umani, Santo or Conversazioni e Vergini. His work has been presented in exhibitions of art and space museums in Italy and abroad: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Otis Parsons, Los Angeles, Polk Museum, Florida; GAM, Bologna, National Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia; Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest. Important personal have been dedicated to him by the Foundation in San Gabriel Stauros (Teramo) in 1999, the Modern Art Gallery in Bologna in 2003 at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome in 2006, at Villa Aldobrandini in Rome in 2010 and the National Museum of Villa Pisani at Stra (Venice) in 2011. Between 1998-1999 deepened his personal interest in the relationship between Art and Liturgy attending the two-year studies at the Theological Institute of St. Anselm in Rome. From 2000 had working for ecclesiastic commission, realizing liturgical furnishings for churchs in Rome, in Terni and in Prato. He was awarded by Pope John Paul II during the Jubilee of 2000 with the title of Academician of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts, and Letters of the Virtuosi of the Pantheon. His works are in international pubblic institutions: the UN Palace in Geneva, Stockholm City Hall, home of the Nobel Prize, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Collection, Palazzo della Farnesina, Rome, Museum of Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, and Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. aan Zee, Scheveningen, e Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park di Grand Rapids, Michigan.