Brief psychological considerations on landscape in Gian Carlo Riccardi’s paintings

This research article aims to analyse the landscape representations in the multimedia and avantgarde artist, Gian Carlo Riccardi’s figurative artworks. Our psychological analysis considers the surreal and fairy-tale landscape of the canvases of the 2000s that present a deformed and altered reality through form and colour, reproductions of a landscape dictated by memory, dreams and especially, the artist’s childhood through the depiction of giant men, burning houses, animals with elongated legs, aeroplanes, small boats, seas and mountains. We aim to show how Riccardi approaches landscape in the various figurative works he has produced. In order to render the work complete, it proposes a psychological comparison with the urban landscape represented in the caricature drawings and the landscape depicted in the abstract paintings, which are not mimetic representations of reality but transfigurations of an interior landscape, of the artist’s own suffering through lacerations on the canvas, figuratively outlining his emotions within the created landscapes. Riccardi presents the overcoming of realistic imitation and intends to construct a new language of figuration composed of a basic and direct structural lexicon with lines, forms and elements that reconstruct the landscape in the various forms described above