Carlo Romiti

Carlo Romiti was born in 1953 in Castelfiorentino (Fi). He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Since 1987, he has directed the Theater Workshop of the Visual Arts Center of the Municipality of Certaldo (Fi). He collaborated with a research group on expressive activities at the Faculty of Education of the University of Florence for the creation of educational texts. He has taught courses on painting techniques for the Didactic Section of the Uffizi and at the Museum of Prehistory in Florence. He conducts a pictorial research on the chromaticity of the local soils, a distinctive feature of his works. In fact, Romiti has been painting for years with the soils he himself researches. Painting begins the moment he scrapes a bank and, with his hand, collects the first handfuls of earth. The continuation of an ancient technique of millennia and the continuous research on color and its applications are a source of inspiration. Sometimes it is the earth itself, with its different shades, that suggests the work, in an alternation of priorities between subject and color. The earth, hand-ground in stone mortars, is mixed with water, egg, or various adhesives, but also with linseed oil. The use of this technique can only find confirmation in the artist's environment and lifestyle: a measured isolation in the countryside between San Gimignano and Volterra. His horses, his dogs, and in the nearby woods, deer and wild boars are, along with the landscape, his favorite subjects and the means to rediscover the ancestral part that is in each of us.

Romiti has exhibited his works in numerous galleries and public spaces, both in Italy and abroad, in both solo and group exhibitions. His first solo exhibition was in 1979 at the Orlandi Gallery in Prato. His international experience began in 1991 at Maison Visinand in Montreux (Switzerland) and in Geneva, then he was also featured in Germany (Berlin, Hannover, Sollingen, Heidelberg, Sassenberg), London, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, and New York. In Italy, he has exhibited in collective and solo shows throughout the peninsula. Romiti lives in a farmhouse in the countryside of Gambassi Terme (Fi), where he has his studio.