He has held over two hundred and fifty personal exhibitions, receiving more than fifty national and international awards. Luigi Rincicotti, one of the contemporary figurative painters most appreciated by critics, passed away from the affection of his loved ones on Sunday 28 April: he would have turned 83 on 13 August.
Originally from Fano, he had arrived in Veneto already in 1959 and in 1966 he had been awarded for the design of the Venice Pavilion at the Art Biennale of that year. The Treviso region had become his new home since 1973: Rincicotti lived in a splendid farmhouse near Musestre di Roncade. Initially he moved there with his wife Maria Vittoria Porcellini. Having remained a widower, he had lived the last 34 years with his partner Donatella and his daughter Lara who assisted him until the end. As a young man he had personally met artists such as De Chirico, Saetti, Guidi and Carena. In 1971 in Barcelona he received the first overall prize among 760 artists from 36 nations, a recognition of which he was very proud together with that which, in 2004, the Senate had awarded him by awarding him the Faber prize in the Capitol. Rincicotti’s latest works date back to 2019 despite the illness that had affected him limiting the use of his right hand. Always appreciated by critics, Lucia Majer had written of him: «Rincicotti expresses himself through images that seem cut out of a dream». The mayor of Roncade, Pieranna Zottarelli, remembered him as a great artist of his time, expressing the condolences of the entire municipal administration to Rincicotti’s family. The last farewell to the artist will be celebrated on Saturday 4 May at 10.30 in the parish church of Musestre.
