{"id":3805,"date":"2016-01-01T11:26:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T10:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paolomassimoruggeri.com\/?page_id=3805"},"modified":"2018-04-15T20:44:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T18:44:29","slug":"biography-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.paolomassimoruggeri.com\/index.php\/biography-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography-en"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_1' class='avia-section main_color avia-section-no-padding avia-no-border-styling avia-full-stretch avia-bg-style-fixed   av-minimum-height av-minimum-height-100 container_wrap sidebar_right' style = 'background-repeat: no-repeat; background-image: url(https:\/\/www.paolomassimoruggeri.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Grandarancio_Web.jpg); background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center center; ' data-section-bg-repeat='stretch' ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-3805'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  av-animated-generic fade-in  flex_column_div first  \" style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; padding:0% 0% 2% 5% ; border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h5 class=\"testo_critica\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">It so happens I was born in Cremona in 1955, but it could have been anywhere else at any other time.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"testo_critica\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">For years soft and tenuous, impalpably atmospheric paintings were my trademark. Then there was this sort of a big bang and I found my paintings suddenly turn defiantly and vibrantly colourful, brimming over with form.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"testo_critica\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">I no longer believe a painting somehow represents what I\u2019m like inside. I now think of it more as an act of creation rather than as an expression of creativity. It\u2019s really about creating new worlds, a chromatic cosmogony where beauty and art are no longer laden by the burden of living or fraught by temptingly mellow and melancholic existential impotence but loudly proclaim that there is much more besides. I\u2019m talking of happiness.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"testo_critica\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Obviously, there\u2019s room for other things in my life as well. Things of greatest worth eschew telling: I talk about them through my paintings<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"firma_critica\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Paolo Massimo Ruggeri<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1' class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right'   ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-3805'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3340,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paolomassimoruggeri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paolomassimoruggeri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paolomassimoruggeri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paolomassimoruggeri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paolomassimoruggeri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.paolomassimoruggeri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8568,"href":"https:\/\/www.paolomassimoruggeri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3805\/revisions\/8568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paolomassimoruggeri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paolomassimoruggeri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}