A Cartography of Impermanence: The World of Riccardo Baruzzi Riccardo Baruzzi, born in the Emilia-Romagna heartland of Lugo, Italy, in 1976, isn’t an artist who readily offers easy definitions. To categorize his work as simply painting or drawing feels insufficient; it's more accurate to describe a sustained investigation into the very *possibility* of representation itself. His artistic autobiography, as he succinctly puts it – “one day I went to my valley – the Ravenna valley – where some friends used to organize lunches in the hunting and fishing huts” – hints at a grounding in place, a d…