{"product_id":"the-colour-of-matter-my-painting-my-masters","title":"The Colour of Matter. My Painting, My Masters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This book was born of gratitude. Art has always shown me the way.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMario Raniolo was born in Ragusa in 1954, among the white stone of the Hyblaean plateau, the red earth of the fields and a sea that is not water but an abyss of light. He spent his childhood in Bavaria, where a painter opened the door of art to him; he became an engineer in Padua; for years he painted in secret, without telling anyone. Until a friend entered him, without a word, in a painting competition in Ferrara. He won first prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn The Colour of Matter, the painter tells where his colours come from: from the lime he mixed as a boy beside his father, a bricklayer; from the Sicilian drawn-thread work his mother made at the loom, an art made not by adding but by taking away; from years of silence and from many journeys, which brought him pigments and earths gathered half the world over. And he salutes the masters who taught him: Piero Guccione, Gerhard Richter, Lucio Fontana, Mark Rothko, Emilio Vedova.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe final section, Paintings Considered, gathers the readings and poems that other people wrote in front of his works, each beside the painting that inspired it, followed by a gallery of works reproduced in colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA book about matter painting, about the craft of the hands, and about an idea that runs through all his work: veiling to unveil, bringing to light what matter tries to hide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e136 pages · 17.8 × 25.4 cm · paperback · printed in full colour, with the works reproduced\u003cbr\u003ePublished by MArt Srl, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MrArt Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55355989262677,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/0891\/3237\/files\/01copertinafronte_d11afcb2-e3b3-4381-a7fc-c53fad5c4622.jpg?v=1792138850","url":"https:\/\/mrartstudio.com\/products\/the-colour-of-matter-my-painting-my-masters","provider":"MrArt Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}