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Pianezza Studio Pianezza Studio can be visited in working days between 4.30 p.m. and 7 p.m.
On Saturday only by booking.
It is recommended to phone before visiting: if the artist is travelling or busy with exhibitions the Studio is closed.
Fax and Phone: +39 11 9674793

Santa Margherita Gallery

Every day of the year the Gallery can be visited.
Schedule:

  • winter 10-12 a.m. 3-7 p.m.
  • summer: 10-12 a.m. 4-12 p.m.

During March, April, May, September and October:
"The big Exhibition"

Tel 0185 28 99 71, (ask for Meltzeid Gallery).


e-mail: gm@meltzeid.com


History

1941Born in Pianezza from an Hungarian father and an Italian mother, he inherits the love for visual art, painting and sculpture from his father.
1969He is in Pariswhere he wins the Grand Prix with a personal exibition at the Galérie Duncan - Rue de Seine
1970He makes exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Hardford and Baltimora.
1971His first exhibition in Portofino
1972He dedicates to the racing driver Nino Farina, the first world champion of Formula 1 the painting now shown in the Head Office of the Automibile Club of Turin.
1973he paints and signs the first Suzuki RV 90 imported in Italy, shown at the Fiera of Milano and then installed in the building of Suzuki Head Office, in Japan.
1983He begins his co-operation with UNICEF with a big and spectacular exhibition in Rome, at the Castelluccia
1984Exhibition at the Laforet Museum of Tokio
1985Upon invitation of the French Association Bilan de l'Art Contemporaine he makes an exhibiton in Dallas, Texas
1986He makes the paintng for the Monastery of the Franciscan Fathers of Baccanello (Bergamo) representing a blessing Pope John XXIII
1987He makes a portrait of the First Lady of United States, Nancy Regan
1988It starts another own exhibition area in Santa Margherita
1989He exibits at the "Centre Pompidou" in Paris
1990He paints the official work celebrating the European Community Union
1991Opens the art exhibition in Portofino
1992Some of his works appear in elementary school textbooks. His artistic Calendar printed becomes a collection article
1994He opens a Studio and an Agency in New York
1995He wins the Award Gold Metal at the Artdex International in Seattle, for the best cultural message of the year; He takes part successfully to the Artexpos of New York and Las Vegas
1996With a sumptuous ceremony at Villa Durazzo he is named "Artistic Ambassador of Portofino and Santa Margherita Ligure in the world"
1997He exibits as "Honour Guest" at the Hofsrta University of New York
1998Exhibition in the sixteenth century Palazzo Scaglia di Verrua - Turin. Honour guess at Hofstra University - New York. Permanently at Spring Lake Gallery - New Jersey
1999The City Council of Pianezza organises and hosts a wide anthological exibition of his works in the nice halls of the City Council Building Honour Guess at Seton University - New Jersey
2000Honour Guest - Nassau Country University of New York
2001Art exhibition at Crans-Ambassador, Crans-Montana - CH
2004The City of Sanremo organises a his exibition in the halls of the Casinò
2005Valle d'Itria, Ceglie Messapica. for the first time, contemporary works with old trullo
2007He comes back in the Studio at Portofino

THE ENCHANTMENT AND THE LINEAR BEAUTY

Figurative of graphics stamp Guglielmo Meltzeid has the power to put in prison the public's glance thanks to on immediate language; so much communicative to become aware , to render protagonists, everybody autonomously, besides the conditioning of the same consumer culture.
Linked to a conception of the "painting's happiness" and to a total loyal event's dipping inside a limpid "see and perceive", make nowadays' problems simple and give a reading key given an expression to hope and optimism, in order to say how with a good will everything can be exceeded, created, solved.
Starts from a neorealist painting, linked with a spotless, shiny incisiveness of shapes, upon themes attached to human figure and refined, where image always appears solved in a sort of brilliant, glaring atmosphere.
Reconciles art with life, tending to identify the artistic operation with experience's facts, in conformity with a deliberateness which purpose is that same life's appropriation.
His painting's major care is to track down the things true features, the real human presence, independently from actions and facts, elaborating a sort of symbology committed to the imaginary, in a form of hot realism, expressed with a graphic description and with an intense chromatism, into a sort of plastic decantation with aim purely formal, and sponging on a "magic realism" so much particular that when transposed on the painting become an immediate and fairy-like language.
His painting is overloaded besides of realistic boosts, of the real aspects analysis, of the objects' recovery, filtered through the symbolic references, to the time's flowing, towards the purpose of a missed simplicity, towards a threatened pureness…
The work of Guglielmo Meltzeid always intensively engaged, in the meaning anthropological and ideological, solved, moreover, with great sensitiveness and poetic strength.
This operation that, at the same time, showed itself extremely direct and simple, and also secret and hermetic, consists in drawing near things of opposite value in order to obtain, from their simple approach the meaning's greatest tension, in the pure and simple dialectic game: in the work Wings of 1997 he opposes, for example, natural elements (the butterfly, symbol of an uncontaminated world) to technological elements (Electra Glyde motorcycle - in the particular of the propelling) in a contrast of energies sort of panic lyricism.
The intuitive analysis talking to, in the range of the portraits, their images as explicative and explanatory of a painstaking mental and effective formulation: not only somatic types (eyes, nose, mouth), but also different features, emotional moments, the most dissimilar (happiness, pain, surprise) hanging in the time, actual nowadays like yesterday; perfect in every habitat, both ancient and modern, both home and office or museum hereafter the sea or not.
Great sensitiveness, therefore, united with a deep study of the presentation and message that in his works are founded on easiness and clearness in order to speak to everyone, without distinction, almost in part, the hidden meanings of his paintings.
Real is by all appearances so simple, direct such a lot of be appreciate even by a child, who he moreover also speak. And possibly they only look at the most superficial appearance but truly absorb the colour, the consonance, the fairy enchantment.
Fairy a figurative artist's work of graphic matrix? Well, yes, and also poetic: examine every painting and in everyone you'll find a small surprise, but unforeseen that will make happy, the child's soul you have appeased inside. It could be a drop of water, a red ladybird, a little star… or twelve little stars such as in Europe, works of 1991.
All in all his representation's interlacement, succeed in reinstate and in reassemble the figurative elements' scattering in the sphere of an organic kind of great pictorial quality, rich of plastic complexity and symbolic significance.
In every work nothing is quit at random, from the position of the subject, to the painting's centrality, from objects to the synthesis of the size to colours, everything is studied and considered carefully; and still after all it appears so simple, direct and shiny to make certain that it's a mere chance.
It happens also in the landscapes: look at the light and the colours of Portofino so different from the light and the colours of Argentario; and still the sea is not always "our sea"? Sea that even if always the same is always different in colours, in brightness, in the unity of water and sky that sometimes are founded on and make frame to a sail: is the man who is thirsty of knowledge and challenge the peril for furrowing the unknown.
And also what shall we say about paintings with flowers? Symphony of colours and perfumes, from what come afloat the art of poetry of a musical character. In the work of Viole di Sanremo the flowers are navy blue of different tones, but intense as well as deep is their perfume; breathe in and half-close your eyes; the violets stuns and become Liguria's sea; and has the shape of a bow, like a bow also appear the frieze of the little pot that expound life, the easiness, of living in a quiet and light-hearted moment (just look at the seesaw of the dithering of pains and gladness) is the poetry of the blooming of a flower, timeless miracle that every year happen again.
Nature, consonance, in comparison with a see of feelings… a sublimate language, colour, size and shape: all that is Guglielmo Meltzeid.

                                             Giorgia Cassini - art critic

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Guglielmo Meltzeid
Art studio: Via Caduti per la Libertà 26
10044 Pianezza - Torino - Italy
Tel./Fax (+39) 011 967.47.93
email: gm@meltzeid.com

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