Gianni Chiacchio

I am an artist and a professional set designer. I was born and raised in Milan, Italy, and have been living in Brussels, Belgium since 2005.
My professional experience as a set designer began in the eighties. For more than twenty years I worked for television, cinema, advertising, fashion events and promotional displays.
Since 2008 I have chosen painting as the laboratory for my technical and aesthetic research, after a creative and artistic journey through multiple forms and expressive disciplines.
Today I paint with a brush applying the technique of flat backgrounds. Strictly flat colour painting is a constitutive part of my language: a painting that is not interested in perspective, depth or shadows. The composition is a reminiscent of silkscreen printing in its decorative qualities based on the sign applied directly to the matrix. However, my procedure is different: I start from the matrix (the backgrounds), I elaborate its graphic qualities through the sign, I keep the traces of the working on the support.
On the canvas, chiaroscuro and nuances are eliminated and shadows are simplified, merged, amalgamated and condensed into backgrounds that fit together like pieces of a puzzle. The tonal gradations are distributed in a s...

November 2019
Art3f Bruxelles 2019 Brussels Expo - Palais 1 Place de Belgique 1 1020 Bruxelles -BE

April 2019
Art3f Luxembourg 2019 - 10, Circuit de la Foire Internationale L-1347 Luxembourg-Kirchberg

November 2018
Art3f Bruxelles 2018 - Brussels Expo
Bruxelles -BE

April 2017 - September 2018
Solo Exhibition
Tijdok 28 Private Gallery - Zeebrugge - BE

August 2018
ART NOCTURNE KNOCKE 2018
CC Scharpoord - Knokke-Heist - BE

April 2018
KÖLNER LISTE Contemporary Fine Art 2018
XPOST Köln - Cologne - DE

October 2017
ACCESSIBLE ART FAIR 2017
BOZAR – Bruxelles - BE

April 2017
KÖLNER LISTE Contemporary Fine Art 2017
XPOST Köln - Cologne - DE

September 2016
ACCESSIBLE ART FAIR 2016
Jewish Museum of Belgium - Bruxelles - BE

September 2016
ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2016
De Laurenskerk - Rotterdam - NL

October 2015
ACCESSIBLE ART FAIR 2015
The Cercle De Lorraine - Bruxelles - BE