Riccardo Francalancia

Riccardo Francalancia (Assisi 1886 – Rome 1965)  studied in Rome and graduated from the Faculty of Diplomatic Sciences. 

He gave up a brilliant bank career to devote himself to painting. 

He spent time at the Bragaglia Art House.

Caffè Aragno and the Roman School

Riccardo Francalancia was part of the intellectual group of the Third Salon of Caffè Aragno  where he met poets, artists, and intellectuals, including Giorgio de Chirico, Carlo Carrà, Morandi, Roberto Melli and Arturo Martini, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Socrate, Albero Spadini, Longhi, and, significantly, Mario Broglio.

Broglio, who founded the magazine Valori Plastici, was drawn by Francalancia’s flair for drawing and gave him a chance to exhibit in Italy and abroad.

In 1921, Mario Broglio invited him to show at the exhibition Das junge Italien in several German cities.

Fiorentina Primaverile

The following year, it was again Mario Broglio who presented his group of works at Fiorentina Primaverile with the others of the Valori Plastici group.

In 1925, he exhibited at the Rome Biennale.

Novecento italiano

He took part in the Novecento Italiano exhibition organized by Margherita Sarfatti (8 April 1880 – 30 October 1961) an Italian journalist and art critic.

He held his first solo exhibition in 1928 at the Stanze del Libro in Piazza Rondanini in Rome and met with great critical acclaim.

He was at the Venice Biennale in 1932 with five paintings. 

Magic Realism

His name joined those of Antonio Donghi and Francesco Trombadori in the artistic vein known as Magic Realism.

Magic realism  a term first used by the German critic Franz Roth and then Massimo Bontempelli in Italy to describe painting based on great attention to forms situated in otherwordly, dream-like atmospheres.

His works effectively transfigured objective reality, incorporating it into enchanted atmospheres inspired by Italian 14th- and 15th-century painting.

In 1935, he took part in the Rome Quadrennial.

His second solo exhibition in Rome was at the Galleria della Terme, where he showed 21 paintings in 1942.

The most important of his few solo shows was the one at the Gallerie Della Palma in Rome in 1951. 

He was at major art events in Italy and the leading Italian contemporary art events abroad (Germany, Austria, Argentina, Japan, Greece, and Brazil).

In 1959, the Olivetti Cultural Center in Ivrea paid tribute to him with an exhibition that was essentially retrospective. 

His art also met with Roberto Longhi’s full-throated approval.

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