Andrea Chiesi
oil on canvas, 140x200 cm.
Architecture of an old shed lightened of the signs of abandonment to highlight its skeleton, in a neo-Piranesian vision.
Andrea Chiesi was born in 1966 in Modena, where he lives. He is represented by Lipanjepuntin of Trieste, Otto of Bologna, Vitamin of Turin, and Vulcano of Naples.
Major exhibitions include:
Generations, Civic Gallery of Modena, 2002;
Thule, Lipanjepuntin, Trieste, 2004;
La Casa, Otto gallery, Bologna, 2004.
Andrea Chiesi composes an elegy of the contemporary landscape, laying bare, in livid and somber canvases, the lost soul of abandoned factories. Theater of workers' struggles and haunt of the punk culture from which the artist comes, these places are stripped of the superfluous, until they reveal a romantic and metaphysical essence. Tempo06 is the final act of a work that began on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2000, at 2:37:12 p.m., with a performance by the artist who illegally broke into a warehouse in Sesto San Giovanni to photograph it before its demolition. The pools of water to suggest underground worlds and the theory of poles driven into the ground like spears transform the steel and concrete skeleton into a fantastic architecture, worthy heir to the charm of Piranesi's designs (licia spagnesi).