Luciano Chinese
Luciano Chinese
Venice, Italy
About Luciano Chinese
He was born in Mariano del Friuli (Gorizia) (Italy) in 1942.He lives in Venice and in Mariano del Friuli.He studied Art in Venice and after his bachelor he frequented the Academy with the M. Bruno Saetti and he studied Architecture in Venice too.Toni ToniatoEvolutions of colour??because to everything nothing of the origin bud?Alfonso GattoLuciano Chinese is an artist who entered the international scene a few years ago, although his vocation for painting had never flickered, not even when he left his studies, first at the Academy and later at the University of Architecture in Venice, because he was forced to dedicate his time to other activities in order to make a living. Nevertheless, these activities were always in the same field and he was able to promote and organise important cultural events, subsequently opening art galleries in towns in the Veneto and Friuli areas, the latter being the land of his birth, and through which he has introduced and promoted worthwhile Italian and foreign artists.Already known for these merits, when he returned to his ever more pressing original vocation, which he has pursued since the nineteen-eighties with increasing continuity and variety in his work, insufficient attention was paid to the value of his pictorial efforts, rightly demanded since they were owned and displayed by prestigious museums. The many intellectual interests that he has continued to cultivate have not therefore encouraged a more committed and widespread critical response to his creative work or, more precisely, it was not perhaps considered that the artist needed such authoritative confirmation. In spite of this, in recent decades Chinese has managed to travel, with his researches, an experimental inclination of considerable weight, directing his expressive language in a direction that combines new etymons of colour and space, even using recovered materials ? particularly glass ? in order to attain further effects of luminous reflection with intriguing visual proposals.The years spent in Venice, between 1956 and 1970, in contact with the spatialist group have clearly influenced his work, already marked by elegant imaginative proposals in the wake of a cosmologism variously conjugated, at the time, by certain protagonists of the first and second wave of Futurism, by Balla and then by Fillia and Crali, onto whose imprint the harmonic and vibrant matter of his pictorial images and the successful depiction of other ?possible worlds? have fecundly grafted.It seems in any case certain that the artist?s imagination tends to move between vital instances from informal poetics ? the strong material gestuality of his ?reliefs? ? and the urgency of a fantastic dreamlike expansion in a determinant cosmic-spatial projection that has allowed him to correspond in the same manner with the creative stimulating formulations of Lucio Fontana. Rather, this last reference has shown to be anything but occasional, because certain imperious proofs especially on the instrumental plane, immediately evident in the more recent works, directly recall the experimental practices already used with extraordinary inventiveness by the founder of the Spatialism Movement. And not only for the use, also by Chinese, of glassy materials, of silvered and gilt blades, but for the formal execution, in particular those relating to the almost analogous construction of rotating globular elements on the surface, drawing vast orbits, eccentric movements, segnic constellations of elegant spatial structuring.The basic elements of Chinese?s linguistic repertory thus result subsumed by these various sources, which have substantially inspired him to carry forward a conception of abstraction that is both geometric and lyrical, of constructive rigour ? in a certain sense Cartesian ? and of expressive freedom, disciplined only by a seductive fanciful inspiration, thus opening his pictorial vision to exhilarating hues, to turbulent linear rhythms that race along with the relentless impetus of energetic flows on the panels of the surfaces.In the compositions there is a dominant yearning for the absolute, a powerfully expressed urge to manifest an idea of infinitum that the artist in a certain sense clearly postulates, by depicting, through the orbital evolution of numerous geometric bodies, spheres, ellipses, spirals, shapes of a sublime cosmology that would seem to refer to the allure of the revolutionary speculative hypotheses of Giordano Bruno, but which in effect, does not lie outside the safest theoretical elaborations supplied, nowadays, by quantum physics.The geometric finite of these spatial bodies, on the other hand, come within the short circuit with the infinite adimensional of the basis, so that it seems as though Chinese intends, here to mime or simulate a gesture of overcoming the surface that in Fontana is presented with the radicalism of a p
Education:
He studied Art in Venice and after his bachelor he frequented the Academy with the M. Bruno Saetti and he studied Architecture in Venice too.
Exhibitions:
2016
-– Bussolengo (Verona) (Italy):January: Personal Exhibition at Rigo Gallery
2015
-Naples: Art Fair
-Venice and Udine: participation to the day of contemporary art with personal exhibitions organized by
AMACI, Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums
2014
-Freiburg (Germany):Personal Exhibition at Freiburg University
-Venice: participation at “Open”, International exhibition of sculpture and installations around the city of
Venice, side event of the Venice Film Festival
-Venice:Participation to the day of contemporary art with a personal exhibition organized by AMACI,
Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums
2013
-Udine(Italy) :Installation
-Venice: Participation to the day of contemporary art with a personal exhibition organized by AMACI,
Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums
2012
-Berlin: Personal Exhibition at Humboldt University
-Udine (Italy): Personal Exhibition at “La Loggia” Gallery (Italy)
2011
- Treviso (Italy): Personal Exhibition at Casa dei Carreresi Museum, Cassamarca Foundation
- Kiev: Personal Exhibition at National Museum in Kiev
- Cividale del Friuli (Udine) (Italy): Personal Exhibition at Cividale Bank
2010
- Kharkov (Ukraine) Personal exhibition in Art Museum of Kharkov
- Venice: Exhibition in an exhibition space of Mondadori bookshop in Venice, organized by Imagoars
- Ascoli Piceno (Italy):Personal exhibition at Palazzo dei Capitani
2009
- Venice:Participation to the day of contemporary art with a personal exhibition organized by AMACI,
Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums
- Udine (Italy): personal exhibition at “Laboratorio 2 International” Gallery
- Paris, personal exhibition in Paris, invited by Denis Diderot University
2008
- Venice:Participation to the day of contemporary art with a personal exhibition, organized by AMACI,
Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums
- Milan, Bocca Bookshop
- Udine, Feltrinelli Bookshop, curator Riccardo Caldura
- Torino, A monograph on Luciano Chinese is presented at the International Bookfair by Venice
Region, curator Toni Toniato
-Cape Town (South Africa): Invitation of Piemonte Region to the Internationale Bookfair
- Venezia-Mestre, Villa Settembrini, presentation of Toni Toniato
- Castelfranco Veneto- Treviso (Italy): exhibition “Zona Grandi Servizi Territoriali”
-Kharkov (Ukraine): International Art Festival of Kharkov, where he is the winner of the first prize. He
obtains theUnesco patronage and the invitation to have a personal exposition at Kharkow Art Museum,
- Trieste (Italy): personal exhibition
2007
- Vicenza (Italy): Personal Exhibition in Art Fair of Vicenza
- Forchheim (Germany):Personal Exhibition at "Artodrome" Gallery
- Salzburg (Austria): Personal Exhibition at Art Fair of Salzburg with Bohener Gallery of Mannheim
(Germany)
- Lugano (Switzerland): meeting by Rinaldo Invernizzi
- Gorizia (Italy): Presentation of the Monography at National Library
- Mariano del Friuli (Gorizia) (Italy):Presentation of the Luciano Chinese’s monography by the
Municipality
- Venice: "Ca' Pesaro" International Museum of Modern Art, presented by the art historian Toni Toniato
and by Dr.Silvio Fuso, director of Ca' Pesaro Museum
2006
- Presentation in Television Programmes of Italia Channel and Televenezia
2005
- Lugano (Switzerland): Personal Exhibition at Rinaldo Invernizzi’s
– Madrid :Personal Exhibition organized by“Dates Automovil España sl” and “Faconauto”
– Madrid: presentation at theThyssen-Bornemisza Museum
- Alcobendas(Madrid): personal Exhibition organized by ”Dates Automovil España sl”and” Mitsubishi
Motors España”
- Venice-Mestre “Momenti d’Arte”, sponsored by Cat Studio and presented by the curator Philippe
Daverio
- Cortina D'Ampezzo (Belluno) (Italy): Personal Exhibition
- Venice: Prize to the career “El Vovo de Venexia”
- Padua (Italy): Art Fair
2004
- Moraro (Gorizia) (Italy): personal exhibition organised by the municipality
- Castellanza (Varese) (Italy): Personal exhibition at Pagani Museum, invited by the Pagani
Foundation
- Barcelona (Spain): Personal exhibition at “Dates Automovil España sl”, reviewed