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Lot Essay
Born in Argentina in 1948, to an Italian father, Ricardo Cinalli has adopted Spitalfields in the East End of London as his second home, establishing himself on the London art scene from the 1980s with his striking layered paper drawings on a large scale, his theatre designs and his monumental frescoes inspired by the art of the Renaissance. Cinalli's Italian roots are unmistakably discerned in the avid interest he takes in mythological and allegorical figures clearly influenced by Michelangelo's muscular yet dynamic compositions for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling.
He completed a large fresco, The Mystic Net, at the Duomo di Terni in Umbria, Italy in 2007 and was still working on a giant fresco covering all the walls of a custom-built edifice in Punta del Este in Uruguay in 2010. Cinalli has exhibited extensively throughout South and North America, Europe and Russia and his work is in the collection of St Paul's Cathedral, London. A retrospective exhibition of Cinalli's work was held at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2006.
He completed a large fresco, The Mystic Net, at the Duomo di Terni in Umbria, Italy in 2007 and was still working on a giant fresco covering all the walls of a custom-built edifice in Punta del Este in Uruguay in 2010. Cinalli has exhibited extensively throughout South and North America, Europe and Russia and his work is in the collection of St Paul's Cathedral, London. A retrospective exhibition of Cinalli's work was held at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 2006.