{"product_id":"giorgio-chiesi-senza-titolo","title":"Giorgio Chiesi - Untitled","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the history of art, a clear distinction can often be made between figurative and abstract stylistic currents. However, when an artist's goal is to represent an object that resonates with phenomenal reality but is simultaneously charged with hidden and symbolic meaning, this boundary can become blurred. Even some American Abstract Expressionist artists, such as Willem De Kooning, interpolated the gestures of abstraction with figurative elements in some of their works. Others, such as Jean Dubuffet, succeeded in combining a decidedly informal aesthetic with the creation of grotesque figures. This type of influence, as well as the existentialism of Bacon and Giacometti, also inspires the work of Giorgio Chiesi, whose subjects consist of bizarre anthropomorphic figures inserted into an original context of abstract and informal expressionist languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eThis painting is truly exemplary of Giorgio Chiesi's research, bringing together in a single work the many influences that fuel his artistic style. Chiesi's fundamental principle is, first and foremost, a mediation between the instinctive nature of a gestural technique and an interpretative key rooted, however minimal, in phenomenal reality. This creates a typically grotesque figure whose composition recalls De Kooning, while its sarcastic, bizarre, and paradoxical spirit harks back to Dubuffet's Brutalism. Simultaneously, there is also an element drawn directly from reality, with the collaged addition of a musical score, a figure of Saint Sebastian, and other elements that are not easily identifiable. What is certain is the reference to the neo-Dadaist poetics of the object, whereby even discarded elements rightfully enter the work, as symbols of contemporary society. The composition as a whole, so rich in media references but difficult to interpret, can be fully included in the incommunicability of informal currents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eGiorgio Chiesi was born in Felina in 1941 and passed away in Sant'Andrea di Busseto in 2021. After moving to Milan, he held various jobs until the early 1960s, and his work prevented him from dedicating himself full-time to painting, which was already his primary interest. He subsequently held 80 solo and 80 group exhibitions throughout Italy, in private galleries and public spaces. Giorgio Chiesi's artistic journey began with the social realism of the 1960s and continued through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s with an expressionism inspired by Bacon and Giacometti, in which the scream is the symbol of a desperate humanity. Between the 1990s and 2000s, Chiesi's figures became more ironic and caricatural, and his works also incorporated everyday objects, inserted through collage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Loris Calciolari","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56218111115650,"sku":"lcal0010","price":3150.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/13-GIORGIO-CHIESI-4.jpg?v=1768471282","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/giorgio-chiesi-senza-titolo","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}