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Claudio Cionini
30/05/2023

Claudio Cionini

Claudio Cionini was born in Tuscany in '78, where he attended Artistic High School in Grosseto and the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
In 2000, he began his exhibition activity, following the teaching of Prof. Daniele Govi and Prof. Adriano Bimbi. After his studies, he immediately focused on the industrial landscape, the reality that surrounds him in the city where he has always lived, Piombino. He started to be attracted to the steel mill plants: the strong chiaroscuro and the smoky atmospheres that envelop blast furnaces and pipelines. He subsequently created many drawings, including from life, and approaches monochromatic painting. In 2007, he participates in the "Michetti" Prize with two paintings depicting the industrial port of Piombino. Later that same year, he exhibits these works at the group exhibition "Nuovi pittori della realtà" at the P.A.C. in Milan. In the same year, he starts his first studies of urban landscapes after visiting Paris. Fascinated by the metropolitan panorama, he realizes the fundamental characteristic of his work: space, the depth of perspective, and the vanishing point. The first significant solo exhibition is in 2008, entitled "Luoghi dell'assenza" (Places of Absence), at the Archaeological Museum of Fiesole.


In 2009, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Cionini participates in various celebrations in remembrance of the event. Invited by the Tuscany Region and after several stays in Berlin, he creates a series of works that will be part of the solo exhibition "L'ombra del Muro" (The Shadow of the Wall) held at the halls of the Regional Council of Tuscany at Palazzo Panciatichi in Florence. He continues to depict the city of Berlin, which is stimulating from an architectural and cultural point of view. Cionini's painting becomes more material, incorporating new tones and new framings. Thus, in 2010, the solo exhibition "Scorci di verità" (Glimpses of Truth) is born at the Contemporary Art Gallery of Arezzo.
In 2011, at the Piaggio Museum in Pontedera, he exhibited a series of works dedicated to the steel mills of his hometown, a theme dear to him that he has never abandoned over the years, along with other works depicting major global metropolises, especially American ones, ranging from New York to Los Angeles, and others from Melbourne to Tokyo. The painter's idea was to approach these great cities as if they were a single boundless global metropolis. Using images from the web and cinema, he created the exhibition titled "RUST! Factory-City-Memory." In 2013, he participated in the exhibition at the Angelica Gallery in Rome titled "ISTANTI – Under the Skin of Images," for which he created some paintings dedicated to the eternal city; one of these, portraying Piazza del Popolo, was donated to the Italian Senate. In October 2014, he exhibited in Sicily, at the prestigious Palermo gallery Lupo 'Art, with an important solo exhibition, and in November at the Fornace Pasquinucci in Capraia Fiorentina. The solo exhibition was titled "Blues della grande città" (Blues of the Big City), a deliberate tribute to the poetry collection by Cesare Pavese. In the spring of 2015, he exhibited in Pietrasanta, in the halls of Palazzo Panichi, "Oltre i deserti: le città visibili" (Beyond the Deserts: The Visible Cities) is the title of the solo exhibition that recalls the work of Italo Calvino, and later he participated in the creation of the book "Cibo Arte Vino Mare" curated by Elena Barsacchi, with recipes by chef Luciano Zazzeri, portraits by Oliviero Toscani, including one of Cionini, and a text by Vittorio Sgarbi.


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