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b. 1932 - d. 2017

Gino Guida ( Naples , 1932 - Zagarolo , 17 December 2017 ) was a painter and engraver Italian .

He moved with his family to Rome in early childhood; here he completed his classical studies and graduated from the Liceo Artistico; left the Faculty of Architecture to devote himself to comics, making his debut in 1954 by creating the Red Corsair series with Enzo Carretti , published in the Scugnizzo magazine by the Central Publishing House and the Roger Falco series for the Eroi del West magazine by Editrice Romana Periodici. During the fifties he also entered the field of animation and cinematographic scenography until 1957, when he decided to devote himself entirely to painting, obtaining some success especially in the seventies. [1]

In 1960 with Marcello Confetti , Paolo Ganna , Piero Guccione , Carlo Quattrucci , Pino Reggiani , Aldo Turkeyro and Pasquale Verrusio he forms the Roman figurative group "Libertà-Realtà" in reaction to the prevailing "informal"; the first and only exhibition of the group will be held in January 1961 at the "Stagni" Gallery in Rome. The critic of the group was Antonio Del Guercio.

In the summer of 1961, Guida had a serious hand accident and did not paint for more than a year. At the end of 1963, after his recovery, he goes to live in Testaccio , in the same building where Giovanni Checchi and Carlo Quattrucci are also , to whom he is bound, if not an artistic partnership, a deep friendship.

In 1965 he was the first solo show at the "Il Girasole" Gallery, of which he is one of the founders together with Amadio, Checchi, Ciai, Capotondi, Eustachio, Gaetaniello, Guiotto, Patella, Provino, Sarnari, Vaiano and the critic Giorgio Di Genova. They are works even more imbued with light: a white, lit, omnivorous light, different from the previous ones, more material and expressionist. Presenting it in the catalog, Vespignani , to whom a lasting friendship will bind him, revealed its main originality in abstract, metaphysical light, intertwined with amazement, mystery, timelessness.

He has held over 60 personal exhibitions and has participated in the main artistic events in Italy and abroad.