The title of IMAGO or image in Latin, represents, Mirko Baricchi’s latest body of work. Drawing from Jungian theory where imagos are the result of personal experiences from one’s unconscious, one can only think of Baricchi’s distinct visual vernacular to depict personal landscapes, often drawing from his homeland of Veneto.
Viewing the artist’s growth from previous exhibitions “Selva” (2018), translated from Italian to woods, to “Oltre/Beyond” (2022) “Imago” presents Baricchi’s engagement with a newly expanded palette that showcases a flooding of light and emotion over large areas of the canvas.
About the artist
Mirko Baricchi is an Italian painter who was born in La Spezia in 1970. Upon graduating from the Palazzo Spinelli Art Institute in Florence, he worked as an illustrator in Mexico City. Baricchi returned to Italy at the end of the ‘90s intent on dedicating his life exclusively to painting. His most recent work is distinguished by an insistent series of procedures measured by the rapid actions of applying and removing pictorial material with the greatest liberty in composition and subject where only a minimal trace of figurative stylistic traits remains.
