Andrea Chiesi
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“I choose places of the soul because I’m interested in a spiritual striving for redemption”, says Andrea Chiesi of his work (read the whole interview). And indeed, anyone observing his impressive post-industrial urban scenes is struck not so much by his technical virtuosity, which for Chiesi is not an objective but a means to gain empathy with the places he paints, as by the sensation of alienation arising amidst the container tanks, piping and purification plants. No human presence, and colour that is perhaps transfigured by the atmospheric agents, or perhaps by an alien eye. Looking at Chiesi’s city outskirts, one has the disturbing suspicion of being immersed in the guts of an unknown collective organism of a dystopic post-human society. Andrea Chiesi won the Cairo Prize in 2004 and participated in the Arte Italiana 1968-2007 Pittura exhibition curated by Vittorio Sgarbi at Palazzo Reale in Milan. Between 2005 and 2007, sales results of his work at auction rose considerably. This growth in appreciation of Chiesi’s work has been recently confirmed by the success of his work at Arte Fiera 2008 and by the arrival of new personal exhibitions. . |
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