Gian Carlo Riccardi’s paintings delve into the artist’s individual memory, which emerges in the form of landscapes and figures, altered by a child’s gaze. There are circus performers, giant women, dogs with outstretched legs, war planes and birds flying, and they all stand out against two-dimensional, motionless, and improbable landscapes, densely speckled with coloured dots that fill the resulting spaces so as to link the background to the protagonists floating on it. His paintings are representations of a grotesque and surreal fabula, a fantastic tale reduced to the essential, made up of houses burning or billowing black and white smoke, beasts, men, boats and ships, all signs of a shattered world.