Claudio Carrieri Biography
Claudio Carrieri is a self-taught artist who did not attend institutional art schools but rather technical studies, according to family tradition, in mechanics; in reality, without denying his origins, since elementary school he developed a particular predilection for drawing, art and humanistic subjects. In the seventies he dedicated himself to plein air happenings of collective paintings with the involvement of passers-by or theatre/photography, to denounce the desolation of the provincial condition and to graphism, intervening on the landscape to recover the insignificant or degraded into beauty. Reminiscences of these first experiments will be found later, in the nineties, in the large installations in painted, inflatable canvas ("Classic", 1991-92, in Stella, Savona, Albisola) and in fiberglass ("Palma a vento" and "Cactus ” in Albisola Superiore and Marina). “In the seventies I had the myth of the DAMS of Bologna, I studied Renato Barilli, Umberto Eco, Marshall Mc Luan”. At the same time he frequented the ceramic factories of Albisola, in particular that of Lino Grosso (later of Sandro Soravia), not as an artist, but as a shop boy. This was the first real school, not only of ceramics, because not only ceramists, but also many painters, sculptors, masters and artists from every part of Italy took turns in the workshops. His passion for art and his cultural influences led him to deepen his studies in the history of art, the history of science and philosophy. In 1981 he founded the "Arzocco" group, a small group of artists who organized exhibitions ironically critical of the beliefs of the nascent "Trans avant-garde". Carrieri developed an ironic streak present in many of his works and had a great intellectual affinity with the artist Antonio Saba Telli, whom he considers one of his masters. His training can be considered as an interdisciplinary syncretism that includes philosophy, physics, poetry, geography, landscape, astronomy, anthropology, history of religions, psychoanalysis of vision and the alchemical dimension of the legacy of his blacksmith grandfather. Carrieri presented exhibitions and artistic experiments, including large painted canvas, inflatable and fiberglass installations.
