Introduction

Some people might call Rizzi an urban naive Artist. A cosmopolitical Primitive would be better. But maybe Rizzi isn`t naive at all

Rizzi does not live in a Slum - he lives and works in a large Loft in the quarter of Manhattan, which is as SoHo well-known and possibly the capital of art of the world. His Loft is very cultivated and elegant and accommodates a quantity of works of art: Of him, of his friends, and some masterpieces of the realism 19. Century, which it lends occasionally for museum exhibitions. There is nothing primitive.

Is he a modern artist? A post office-modern? A cave painter, who erred in the wrong millenium? A Renaissance man? Which Rizzi is actual: an artist, who fits into no pattern. Rizzi is completely simple and moving an artist. Its life's work consists of resisting a categorization. It wanted to be never classified as painters, pressure commercial artists or sculptors. He wanted to remain simply free enough, in order to do all these things and more. He does not want or two exhibitions per year to have and its prices into astronomical heights drive. He wants to simply only work and work and work still another little more and to make enough art for all the people, which love it. Not creating an artfull world, but a world of full art.

The only kind of describing Rizzi is those to call it large city child who became grown-up never in the usual sense. He is Peter Pan with a five-clock shade. In Rizzis art the best qualities of child art are: Directness, originality, expression strength, inspiration, abolition of all rules and, above all, fun. But Rizzi is not on the conditions of a of nine years one stands remained. He has his production to create a childhood those experienced, perfected and funny is. He is a ripe artist with an eye, which he trained to resist a training. Here there is nothing naive. I think, one could say, it is a childhood with the fun the road and a global point of view.

If you like to see James Rizzi gladly as primitive ones or as a wild man, he is naturally lucky to do to you this favour. Rizzis art does not only exist in its pictures. It is also its own creation, continues to file constantly at its original character. He is a fine artist, a fan artist, and above all an Fun artist. He knows, how one has fun, as one catches, distilled and places it.

Rizzi knows that the art copies the life and the life the art, and that, if one packs all also the fun in, which one can pack into the art, it for all times on the people abfaerben becomes.

The fun comes from an artist, who brings the same kind of joy and detail, which you find in its art, also into its life art. Rizzi knows that the art is part of the life and that art and fun are sticking on most. The secret of the art and the secret of the fun are the same. The more one makes, the more one has, the one gets more. That is an open secret. Continue to tell it!     

Glen O'Brian (copyright Krause/Szoke)