short biographical notes on the artist Franco Rinaldi
Born in 1954, he devoted himself to painting beginning in the late 1970s.
His works have been exhibited in numerous solo shows, including: Xilografie at the Sormani Library in Milan with a note by Alda Merini and Ito Itaru; Oltre il velario del sogno at the Tikkun Gallery in Milan curated by Arturo Schwarz and Riccardo Barletta; Arriverà l’uomo nuovo at Primo’s Gallery in Brescia curated by Riccardo Barletta; Nei giardini del sogno at the Piccolo Miglio (Castle) in Brescia curated by Maurizio Bernardelli Curuz; Oltre lo sguardo at the Diocesan Museum of Brescia curated by Giuseppe Fusari. Poetica – le immagini nella poesia – la poesia per immagini, exhibition at Villa Mirabella, Vittoriale degli Italiani, September 2022 – February 2023.
He appears in the catalogue of the exhibition The Artist and the Book in Twentieth-Century Italy at MoMA in New York (1992). He illustrated the covers of La vita facile by Alda Merini (Bompiani, 1996) and Elogio della cultura by Agostino Mantovani (MarcoSerraTarantola Editore, 2014), Animali incontrati by Agostino Mantovani (ALBATROS, 2018), and collaborates on numerous covers for CIRMiB in the Vita e Pensiero editions.
His works accompany several poetry books published by Pulcinoelefante and L’Obliquo, including: Il mio oceano che dorme (with poems by Alberto Casiraghy, 1996), Fuochi Fatui (with poems by Alberto Albertini, 1997), L’orizzonte verticale (with poems by Alessandro Pelliccioli, 2012).
Il viaggio di Ulisse, poems by Gabriele d’Annunzio and works by Franco Rinaldi with texts by Agostino Mantovani and Giordano Bruno Guerri, published for the exhibition at Villa Mirabella, Vittoriale degli Italiani. Segni incisi (1982–2020) by Franco Rinaldi, donation to the Ateneo di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Brescia, 2024, and his closing lecture for the exhibition appears in the Commentari dell’Ateneo di Brescia 2024. In 2025 he receives the Paul Harris Fellow from Rotary Brescia Ovest for his commitment to art.At the Tignale Summer Festival 2025, his exhibition Lo sguardo tra i sogni is held in the Church of San Pietro, Gardola.
A detailed list of exhibitions can be found in the downloadable PDFs on the “cataloghi” page
titl, Uno sguardo nel sogno,2025