Claudio Molinari - Headquarters - Fiat Turin

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and Modern Ages, but predominantly in an idealized manner. Scenes of city life became typical themes with a more realistic interpretation starting in the 19th century. It's worth remembering how, immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists also placed great emphasis on the everyday, on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the frenetic pace of the city, its crowds, traffic, and typically bourgeois settings. Claudio Molinari is an artist fascinated by the outskirts of cities and industrialized areas. He expresses his metropolitan poetics in a highly creative way, achieving a sort of abstraction of the urban landscape. His favorite subjects are views of his native Turin, in which elements of history blend with those of the contemporary metropolis.

This work is part of a series in which Claudio Molinari celebrates the industrial architecture of the Turin area. Compared to his paintings, we can clearly see a shift in style, as the artist abandons the geometric synthesis typical of easel works and adopts a more traditional, realistic representation in his etchings. This allows us to appreciate Claudio Molinari's extraordinary technique in the etchings, in the perfect rendering of every architectural detail achieved through a refined hatching technique that, leveraging the control of shadows and light, enhances the buildings' sculptural qualities. Despite their traditional, realistic style, the contemporaneity of these works is evident not only in the choice of subjects themselves, but also in the compositional approaches devised by the artist, aimed at highlighting the geometric and rationalist beauty of the lines and forms that compose these structures.

Claudio Molinari was born in 1973 in Turin, where he lives and works. In 1993, he enrolled at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, where he studied painting under Italo Bressan. His first solo exhibition was held in Nizza Monferrato that same year. In 1995, he chose printmaking as his second artistic expression, focusing on drypoint and etching/aquatint. In 1997, he opened his first studio, Sunny Side, in Turin, where he installed his first copperplate press. In 2000, he opened a new studio, l'Artificio, on Corso Casale in Turin. It also serves as a gallery for solo and group exhibitions of his own works and those of other artists. Over the last five years, he has exhibited and received recognition in numerous solo and group exhibitions of his paintings and graphics in Italy (Turin, Acqui Terme, Asti, Cuneo, Trento, Treviso, Florence, Varese, Verona, Pavia, Parma, Sassari, Mantua, Acqui Terme) and abroad (Greece, Bosnia, France, Brazil, Switzerland). His works are held in numerous private and public collections in Italy and abroad.

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