Donatien Quartieri - Cenacolo

The Gospel episode of the Last Supper is one of the most frequently depicted subjects in sacred art. Indeed, as the institution of one of the fundamental sacraments of the Christian religion, the Last Supper appears in the earliest examples of early Christian art, in the mosaics of the oldest basilicas, and intensifies as one of the principal episodes in the great fresco cycles depicting the Passion of Christ throughout the Middle Ages. From the 15th century onwards, the Last Supper also developed as an independent subject and began to appear in individual works. From an iconographic perspective, it consists of the representation of the table around which Christ and the apostles are seated, often at the dramatic moment in which Jesus reveals Judas' betrayal. In traditional iconography, the scene appears, in most cases, as a frontal view with Christ seated at the center and the other disciples positioned symmetrically. Saint John, often shown leaning on Jesus' shoulder, and Judas, usually depicted separately on the other side of the table, are always distinguished. The most famous example is Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, frescoed between 1494 and 1498 in the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.

Donatien Quartieri's stylistic language presents a very specific research direction, defined by the term Chromologos. For this artist, the sensations communicated and the stimuli suggested by chromatic elements and the relationships established between colors are fundamental to the composition of his work. This is why Donatien Quartieri's paintings always translate into exuberant polychrome surfaces with bright, luminous hues. This occurs both when the artist pursues abstract, pure colors, obviously drawing inspiration from Kandinsky. But Donatien Quartieri's creativity also includes original formulas in which pure chromatic elements overlap with figurative ones. In this way, the artist leaves a trace of reality through a light, ethereal stroke. This same reality is then broken down and recomposed in the intertwined dialogue of colors that overlap on the various planes of the work's surface. In this way the sensible world is directly analyzed and transfigured into a spiritual language of emotions as pure as the colors that Donatien Quartieri uses.

Giuseppe Quartieri, known professionally as Donatien, was born in Lodi in 1963. As a young man, frequenting various Milanese ateliers, he decided to dedicate his life to art, particularly to the study of color, drawing inspiration from the work of Kandinsky, Itten, and De Staël. He then developed his theory of Chromologos in a series of lectures and writings, which developed into a series of artistic and spiritual reflections. These reflections gave rise, in the early 2000s, to the first series of Chromologos works. He has exhibited his work in galleries in major cities such as Paris, Rome, Milan, Rimini, Heidelberg, Bremen, Ysny, Munich, Lyon, and Chartres. Between 2013 and 2014, he wrote a book in French and Italian on Chromologos. Today, Donatien Quartieri continues his research alongside his artistic practice at the Chromologos Academy in London.

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