A Chritian Blog on JP2 statue

Who is Oliverro Rainaldi?

Oliviero Rainaldi was born in Caramanico Terme in 1956, and is now working and residing in Rome. He is an alumnus of Venice Accademia di Belle Arti and the Aquila Accademia di Belle Arti.

At the outset, his work was focused on the human figure, explored through drawings, paintings and sculptures. Through the figure, its gesture and body language, headdresses the fundamental questions of human existence, rooted in religion and philosophy, linked to archaic and medieval art history.
Many renown and extensive solo shows were dedicated to him in Italy, like in venues such as La Fondazione Staurós italiana, San Gabriele, Teramo in 1999 by the Galleria D’Arte Moderna di Bologna in 2003.

Oliviero Rainaldi works are shown permanently in public international institutions, such as Caduti in Collection Des Œuvres d’Art de l’Office des Nations Unies in Genève , Battesimi Umani in the City Hall Palace in Stockolm, where the Nobel Prize is held, and in the Collection of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, La Farnesina.

A major sculpture bronze installation, The Tribute, recently installed at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan USA, has become the symbolic figure of the entire historical collection of this Museum.

Oliverri Rainaldi is also the sculpture of the most criticised statue of the late blessed Pope John Paul II, to which the Vatican's official newspaper, Osservatore Romano commented: “The face bears only scant resemblance to the pope,” a critic wrote. “We find ourselves in the piazza before a violent gash, like a bomb.”

more >>>>

and more >>>>