The Artist
“I dreamed it in the night,
I painted it in the morning”
Zaccaria Faraci
Zaccaria Faraci was born in Camastra, Agrigento district, in June, 1939. Now he lives in Rome. He is a figurative landscape-painter who, after a variety of juvenile experiences, started to paint professionally in 1974, achieving remarkable results in a short time. Faraci feels the spirit of art and its clear taste as a pantheistically immediate wish, as identification in the landscape, that he faces with typical impetuousity and energy. As autodidact, he has therefore the consciousness to have been trained by himself through study and experience, and tohave acquired a pregnant vital energy, so that to impose sentimentally human qualities to his paintings.
The Art
Pervaded with the wish of expressig better and better what nature inexhaustibly bring him, he found an unacademic formula to develop his searches and his ideal fervour. So, a country rich of trees, a cottage, a little country road, a lonely gate, a basket of apples, or a bunch of flowers become fellows of is life and the soft and downy colours surprisingly take him in an effusive and human poetry. These are the gestures of a painter who draws this inspiration not only from the real representation, but that, on the contrary, plots and orchestrates the chromatic enchanted and charming scale, without ever denying the game of values and modulations.
Poet of spirit
Meditating and day-dreaming, his subjects become the mirror of his soul and without any effort we imagine him among signs-colours and we consider his perseverance in proceeding lonely in his pictorial tendency. Zaccaria Faraci could be defined a poet of spirit, ready to dominate nature and to establish human connections in the whirling passing of days and months. The model becomes no longer a simple construction on a special theme, but the possibility to create, in that exact moment, something new to preserve the freshness of eye and of the emotion.
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Awards
Zaccaria Faraci has held personal exhibitions in Marino, Paris and several times in Rome.
He has participated in group shows and national exhibitions, obtaining prizes and awards, here are some of them:
Oderisi Da Gubbio
Numana Ars
Biennale Argis
Galleria L’Aventiniana Roma
Trofeo Victoria Ars
Trofeo della Vittoria
Trofeo Saturnia Tallus
Trofeo Era Spaziale
La Tavolozza d’Oro
Gran Trofeo EDAR
Troveo Ars Italia
Un quadro per l’estate 1982
Premio Successo 1982
Premio Augusto Giordano RAI tv
Art criticism
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