Roberto Budicin

Roberto Budicin was born in Trieste in 1980. He began studying portraiture at the age of sixteen in the studio of painter Walter Falzari, heir to the Venetian and Austrian realist painting tradition that had consolidated itself in Trieste in the early twentieth century thanks to masters such as Giovanni Zangrando and Carlo Wostry. He learned drawing and composition techniques from his father Sergio, also a professional painter specializing in illustration and figurative animal painting. He subsequently dedicated himself for about ten years to a personal study focused on the techniques of seventeenth-century masters such as Velázquez and Rembrandt and nineteenth-century masters such as J. Sargent and J. Sorolla.

He began exhibiting in 2007 in group exhibitions and subsequently in several solo exhibitions in Trieste (Tribbio Gallery 2012, 2014, 2016 - Municipal Gallery 2013 - Glam Art 2019), Venice (Melori Gallery 2013), Udine (La Loggia Gallery 2012) and the National Wildlife Gallery in Fort Myers, Florida (2015). His paintings are present in private collections in Italy, Germany, England and the United States.

Budicin uses traditional techniques and materials, following processes he himself rediscovered and perfected, starting from original sources from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This gives his paintings an intrinsic quality, in terms of color harmony and brilliance, very similar to realist and impressionist painting of the past.