Guido Venieri was born in Grottammare the 16 September of 1927. He’s a self-taught painter and from his primary school years he discovered a passion for painting. During his youth days he was encouraged by the fellow citizen Vito Rivosecchi, a bookbinder and a bibliophile, to cultivate his talent and devote himself to art: after almost six years of steady and untiring apprenticeship he completely mastered all the drawing techniques. Professor Giuseppe Pauri, Scholar at Catenati, Macerata, noticed him in the Forties and led him to develop further. In the fifty he moved to Milan, where he opened an art studio, takes contact with Bruno Lorenzelli, Pagani gallery, Apollinaire Gallery, then he came back to his birth place, where he reach her more original dimension.
Guido Venier’s works are vivid and intense both in contents and formal outcomes.
The work of this artist must be considered as a whole. Venieri changes his life experiences into a clever and very personal reflection on the meaning of the world of art: this is the core of Venieri’s artistic activity.
Venier’s works are the result of difficult paths and the courage to choose new languages, but he’s always been interested in making his works perceptible and then value the impact of it on the audience.
But nothing could interfere with his "mundus immagínalis".
He lives his artistic experience with a sort of religious severity and maybe religion is thi enly way for him to detect the unfathomed meaning of existence.
His ability to realize complex architectures, the extreme emotional response of his pictorial sign, his aptitude to always find an artistic solution to balance even jarring elements, his great vividness: this is why Venieri’s artistic path is so important and interesting. The dimension of his paintings, the figurative or non-figurative option, the material consistence, and the chromatic range can vary in such an unpredictable way to puzzle sometimes.
Among his supporters there are the sculptor Pericle Fazzini, the master painter Wladimiro Tulli, the architect and art critic Giulio Nardi, the Belle Arti in Rome lecturer Mario Rivosecchi and the Belle Arti in Rome lecturer Sandro Trotti lecturer Gianni Ottaviani, art critic Luigi Dania.
