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Claudio Cionini

 

Claudio Cionini

Claudio Cionini was born in Grosseto, Tuscany, in 1978. After studying painting at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, his attention turns to industrial landscapes that surround his town, Piombino.

Steel plants, heavy contrasts and smoky atmospheres around the furnaces and pipelines attract him. From 2001 to 2007 he [draws and paints] lots of works evolving his style to mostly monochromatic paintings.

In 2007 he attends the Premio Michetti, one of the most important prizes in Italy, with two works that depict the industrial harbour of Piombino. In November 2007 he exhibits the same works in the collective exhibitions “Nuovi pittori della realtà” at the P.A.C. contemporary art center in Milan.

In the same year, after visiting Paris, he begins to work on urban landscapes.

Fascinated by the city’s boulevards and its endless views he senses some fundamental traits of his works: the space, the depth of perspective, the vanishing point.

His first solo exhibition in 2008, “Luoghi dell’assenza” (Places of absence) takes place at the Archeological Museum of Fiesole (Florence).

In 2009 he takes part to several celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Upon invitation of the Regional Council of Tuscany and after several stays in Berlin he works on several paintings that will be shown in the solo exhibition “L’Ombra del Muro” (The Shadow of the Wall) in Palazzo Panciatichi, venue of the Regional Council of Tuscany.

After this exhibition he keeps on painting Berlin, which has been a stimulating subject for him both from architectural and cultural points of view.

Cionini’s painting style is now more tactile, adding new hues and framings. In 2010 these works are part of the exhibition “Scorci di verità” (Glimpses of truth) in the Contemporary Art Gallery of Arezzo.

In 2011 at the Museo Piaggio in Pontedera Cionini exhibits some works about the steel furnaces of Piombino, a subject he never stopped thinking about, together with other works depicting large American cities such as New York and Los Angeles or other places around the world, from Melbourne to Tokyo.

The painter is fascinated by the idea of getting all these cities closer until it all looks like a global metropolis.

To paint these subjects he mostly use pictures from the Internet or movies still frames. The exhibition was called “RUST! Fabbrica-Città-Memoria” (RUST! Factory-City-Memory).

In 2013 he works on the exhibition “ISTANTI – Under the Skin of Images” at the Galleria Angelica in Rome, showing some paintings about the Eternal City. One of those paintings, depicting Piazza del Popolo, was donated to the Senate of the Italian Republic.

In 2014 the solo exhibition”Blues della grande città” (Big City Blues), a homage to the Italian poet Cesare Pavese, takes place in Palermo in the illustrious gallery Lupo ‘Art, and then in November at the Fornace Pasquinucci in Capraia Fiorentina (Florence).

In the spring of 2015 he works on an exhibition in Pietrasanta (Lucca), Palazzo Panichi, called “Oltre I deserti: le città visibili” (Beyond the Deserts: Visible Cities), a reference to the literary works of Italo Calvino.



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