Riccardo Guarneri (Florence - Italy, 1933). Lives and works in Florence.

Riccardo Guarneri began painting at the age of twenty. At the same time, he developed a career as a musician, playing jazz and classical guitar, performing with pop music orchestras in Italy and abroad.

Although his early approaches were directed towards figuration, Guarneri soon joined the informal movement. From this period is the exhibition Baldi - Fallani - Guarneri - Masi - Verna. Cinque informali a Firenze (1959). In 1962 Guarneri began to take an interest in colour as light, handwriting as painting and the problems inherent in visual perception. From this moment onwards, sign, light and colour began to constitute the leitmotif of the artist's research, which took on a rigorous and geometric structure. It was during this period that he created his first chiarissimi paintings, in which space was marked by variations in light and the surfaces were treated mainly in pencil.

Riccardo Guarneri participated in the 1966 Venice Biennale, the 1967 Paris Biennale in the New Proposals section and the 1973 Rome Quadrennial. His works can be found in various museums of modern and contemporary art in Italy (Florence, Turin, Livorno, Pisa, Cagliari, Taranto, Lissone, Capo d'Orlando, Sarzana, San Gimignano, Parma, Genoa, Conegliano Veneto, Venice) and abroad (Münster, Düsseldorf, New York - Guggenheim).