Ricardo Saro

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Ricardo Saro (born November 27, 1947 in Santander , Spain ) is a German painter.

biography

Ricardo Saro grew up in Germany . From 1967 to 1972 he attended the Werkkunstschule in Hanover, where he studied sculpture . Since at this time his interest was increasingly directed towards painting, he then went to the University of the Arts in Berlin , where he studied painting , art history and philosophy from 1973 to 1980 . There he became a master student of Johannes Geccelli . In 1993 he received the Sprengel Prize for Fine Arts. From 1996 to 1998 Saro taught as “artist in residence” at the University of Witten-Herdecke . His work has been exhibited in numerous museums and art associations.

Ricardo Saro and his work were included in the " artist database and estate archive of Lower Saxony ".

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Saro's independent work began in the 1970s. As a student he developed his own existentially charged “ photo realism ”. In the period that followed, he increasingly dissolved representationalism until, in the 1980s, he came up with an image concept in which only color became the basis of the overall image effect. From then on, color was his artistic medium, which determines his work to this day. “Saro's pictures gain their very own visual language within 'color painting' primarily through their underlying understanding of color. He understands it not only as a purely visual phenomenon, but from the insight that the visibility of the color always contains a way to its spiritual-energetic potential ”. As early as 1993, Saro emphasized at a symposium on the concept of color: “You can also experience color physically. I've noticed that a picture is only ready for me when I not only perceive it visually, but when it suddenly flows through my body. It gets an energy that can not only be explained by the color ”. Saro's pictures emerge over a long period of time. Over many months, sometimes even years, layers of color are applied or removed until an unstable balance between opacity and transparency , delimitation and openness is created. Apparently monochrome and clearly structured color fields dissolve on longer viewing in favor of a variety of color phenomena. The painting of recent times makes this structure of the image from two or more fields back and sees the scene as a totality of color, without a stop by an outline. In Saro's own words: “Spontaneous and gestural patches of color reminiscent of abstract expressionism calm down as soon as you let the colors affect you. I don't want the gestures of this painting to be understood as an end in itself. I am more concerned with a movement in the picture that comes to rest in the color. For me the new works are moving and calm at the same time ”.

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • 2014: Weishaupt Art Gallery , Ulm. "Living with Art"
  • 2013: Museum Ostwall , Dortmund "Anybody can have an idea"
  • 2004: Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum , Hagen / Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund "Color as Color" (catalog)
  • 1999/2000: Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum, Hagen "The color has me" (catalog)
  • 1996: Museum Ostwall, Dortmund "Positions on Contemporary Art"
  • 1996: Kunstmuseum Bonn "Color, Painting of the 90s" (catalog)
  • 1989: Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum , Duisburg "Change of view" (catalog)
  • 2000: Federal Labor Court Erfurt 2 wall works (catalog "Art in Architecture" projects of the federal government 2000-2006)

Exhibition catalogs (solo exhibitions)

  • Catalog "Blush" VGH-Galerie Hannover, (72 pages, 37 images)
  • Catalog "Energy of Color" (32 pages, 16 illustrations)
  • Catalog “Ricardo Saro-Painting” in the Westphalian Art Association, Münster. (70 pages, 24 illustrations)
  • Catalog "Ricardo Saro Painting" Art Association Arnsberg. Text: Bernd Growe (between colors)
  • Book, "Ricardo Saro" a monograph, in Contemporary Art from Lower Saxony Volume 52 (88 pages, 60 images)

Awards

  • 1993: Sprengel Prize for Fine Arts, combined with a solo exhibition in the Sprengel Museum in Hanover

Articles in art magazines

  • Heinz Liesbrock, The patient build-up of color. In Frankfurter Allgemeine November 9, 1990
  • Heinz Liesbrock, Ricardo Saro, painting, in Kunstforum Vol. III 1991
  • Raimund Stecker, Art is the spiritual revaluation of matter into the work of art 4 XLIII
  • Ralf Kulschewski, the biography of color. On the color painting and the new works by Ricardo Saro
  • In KUNSTzeit 4/1997

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

2017

  • ONE out of TWO, diptychs from the foundation collection. Dr. Carl Dörken Gallery, Herdecke

2016

  • Tomorrow / tomorrow, new art in old gardens, Lenthe

2014

  • Living with art. 50 years of the Siegfried and Jutta Weishaupt collection, Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm

2013

  • The luck of collecting. Works from private art collection, KunstHaus Potsdam.
  • Anybody can have an idea. Collection in motion, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund

2012/11

  • Stade-Altes Land, Kunsthaus Stade

2004

  • Color as color. Images of Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation. Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (cat.)

2000/1999 * The color has me. Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen (cat.)

1996 * Positions on contemporary art, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund.

  • Color, painting from the 90s, Kunstmuseum Bonn (cat.)

1995

  • Sense of color, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim ev (cat.)

1993

  • Profiles, Impulse V, Kunstverein Lingen (cat.)

Murals

2002

  • Upside Down Inside Out. NORD-LB, Magdeburg (wall painting)

2001

  • Fields and spaces. Finanz IT, Hanover (wall painting)

2000

  • Work together. Federal Labor Court, Erfurt (wall painting)

Works in public collections

  • Folkwang Museum, Essen
  • Sprengelmuseum, Hanover
  • Josef Albers Museum Square, Bottrop
  • Art Museum, Bonn
  • Museum Ostwall, Dortmund
  • Weishaupt Collection, Ulm
  • Würth Collection
  • Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation, Herdecke
  • German Savings Banks and Giro Association, Berlin
  • Lower Saxony Sparkassenstiftung, Hanover
  • NORD LB, Magdeburg
  • Finanz IT, Hanover
  • VGH, Hanover

bibliography

  • Michael Stoeber, “On the happiness of balance”, Ricardo Saro. Blush, exhibition catalog, VGH gallery Hannover 2014
  • Erich Franz, “Energy of Color”, Ricardo Saro. Energy of color, exhibition catalog, Kunstverein Lippstadt 2012
  • Ulrike Schick, "Ricardo Saro", collection of the Sparkasse Stade, exhibition catalog, Kunsthaus Stade 2011
  • Michael Bockemühl,> Blush <Color Appearance: "How red is and is limited", color as color, pictures by Werner Richard-Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation, exhibition catalog, Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen and Museum am Ostwall Dortmund 2004
  • Michael Bockemühl, “Melokotón”, Michael Fehr (Hrsg./ed.), The color has me. Positions on non-representational painting, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen 2000
  • Michael Stoeber, "The picture as a palimpsest - to the work of Ricardo Saro", Ricardo Saro, contemporary art from Lower Saxony, volume 52/2000
  • Ralf Kulschewskij, “The biography of color. On color painting and the new works by Ricardo Saro ”, KUNSTzeit, 4/1997
  • Stefan Gronert, “Calm energy. On the painting of Ricardo Saro ”, painting of the 90s, exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum Bonn 1996
  • Michael Bockemühl, “Color-Appearance (How Red Becomes and Limits Itself)” exhibition catalog, Kunstverein der Grafschaft Bentheim 1995
  • Lothar Romain, “Concentrating and Balancing”, Places of Silence, exhibition catalog, media center of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover 1995
  • Bernd Growe, "Opaque Colors", Ricardo Saro, exhibition catalog, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster 1994
  • Heinz Liesbrock, "Color is Energy", Ricardo Saro, exhibition catalog, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster 1994
  • Alexandra Glanz, "In No Man's Land", SZENE Hannover, exhibition catalog, Kunstverein Hannover 1992
  • Heinz Liesbrock, “Ricardo Saro. Painting “, Kunstforum, Vol. III 1990
  • Raimund Stecker, "Art is the spiritual re-evaluation of matter", the work of art, 4XLIII 1990
  • Bernd Growe, "between colors", Ricardo Saro, exhibition catalog, Kunstverein Arnsberg 1990

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Quoted from "Color is Energy - Heinz Liesbrock" in "Ricardo Saro" Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, 1994, p. 9/10
  2. ↑ These statements by Ricardo Saros are quoted from "Concept Color" (Ed. Galerie Fesel), Stuttgart: Urachhaus, 1993, p. 98
  3. ↑ Interview with Susanne Pfleger in “Ricardo Saro-Blush” (Ed .: VGH galerie Hannover), 2014 p. 50
personal data
SURNAME Saro, Ricardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Santander , Spain