Donatien Quartieri - Reflections by the Sea

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a constant aspiration for painters. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the 16th century; up until the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism. The "seascape" in particular is a recurring theme among artists. First, for the lyricism implicit in views overlooking the sea or in romantic images of small harbors. Second, because the depiction of aquatic surfaces allows painters to give free rein to their chromatic flair, thanks to refined interplays of reflections and reverberations.

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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