Gino Ceccarelli
“My paintings are an attempt to explore the Amazonian cosmovision, to understand it, apprehend it, and recreate it. However, this wellspring of mystery, magic, myths, and legends is boundless. The more you investigate and discover, the more apparent it becomes that you have only touched the surface”.
A mythical cartography of the Amazon
The Amazonian origin forms the gravitational center of Ceccarelli’s work. Painting, for him, is an act of belonging — a way of exploring the forest’s mysteries without stripping them of their mystery. Instead of naturalistic representation, he creates intense, symbolic interpretations. Figures seem to emerge from water, dreams, or mist, merging the mythical with the personal.
In these images dwell gods, guardian animals, and faces intertwined with roots, as well as boats loaded with history and longing. There is sensuality and strangeness, light and shadow. But above all, there is a quest: Ceccarelli paints not answers, but questions. Who were we? What have we forgotten? What remains when myth becomes landscape?
Over the years, a distinctive iconography has emerged — one that unites the ancestral with the contemporary. Some might call his vision “romantic,” yet his work goes far beyond nostalgia. It is, at once, an act of denunciation, reclamation, and exploration. A sharp awareness of time, of forgetting, and of cultural collision turns his art into a site of poetic resistance.
A visual universe, deeply Amazonian yet articulated through the language of global contemporary painting. His style is unmistakable: fluid, ethereal forms, fleeting figures, and an expressive play between color and emptiness. Rather than depicting Amazonia, Ceccarelli conjures it — inviting us to see it not as a lost paradise, but as a source of knowledge and beauty.
His works propose an emotional cartography of the territory — a map where memory, myth, identity, and desire intersect. Today, Gino Ceccarelli is regarded as a key figure in contemporary Amazonian art. His works are exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, opening new doors to the unknown.
In Ceccarelli’s own words, the mystery of the Amazon is inexhaustible. His art bears witness to this truth: it does not explain the rainforest, but transforms the way we perceive it. Thus, his paintings remain an open invitation to rediscover the boundless depths of the wilderness — and of the human soul — through Amazonian eyes.
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