Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is proud to present
From October 2nd to October 12th, 2024.
On our Artsy page
‘I ask myself’ – Olivieri stated – ’where these coloured shadows that occasionally light up my mind come from; what drives me to try to give form and fullness to what, at times, I fear is a deep and pure phantasm.’ (note 1)
Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is pleased to launch Claudio Olivieri: The Breathe of Painting, an OVR on Artsy dedicated to one of the most influential figures of Italian analytical painting.
Olivieri’s painting technique is based on the nullification of the sign and the purification of the work from the ‘brushstroke’, to which the artist prefers the ‘spray’, a breath of paint that gives fluidity to aeriform forms and colours. Experimentation with colour is inextricably linked to the vision of light as a substance, which gives form to the world and takes on a relevant materiality of its own.
For the artist, the canvas is a place of fluidity in which dynamic nuclei of colour contrast to the point of finding a balance, as in the work ‘In Cenere’ of 1990 where the grey-violet tones interpenetrate.
The artist considers paper to be a support on a par with canvas in terms of both intent and result, as can be deduced from the works on paper included in this OVR: the paper medium, far from being used as a tool for sketches or preparatory studies for larger works, where thanks to the thick grammage of Fabriano cardboard allows the colour to deposit itself in layers, is considered to be a place for the creation of works that are autonomous in terms of beauty and meaning.
Thanks to the depth of his evanescent material, Olivieri keeps his research constantly poised between the two dialectical poles of presence and absence through a highly refined technique of superimposed glazing that always stops the painting on the edge of disappearance.
- Claudio Olivieri, Del resto. Aforismi e altri scritti 1965-2015, 2017, curated by curator Matteo Galbiati, volume 5 of Mimesis. Le Parole dell’arte.
