Giorgio Chiarini Boddi Biography
Giorgio Chiarini Boddi was born in 1933 in Bologna, but spent most of his life in Milan. In 1962 he exhibited in a group show at the Galleria del Cembalo with artists such as Agostino Ferrari, Ugo La Pietra, Arturo Vermi, Ettore Sordini and Angelo Verga, contributing to the new Milanese scene of the time. In 1963, he decided to focus on surreal painting, mainly using pastels. Over the course of the decade, he developed a sensitivity for organic data and psychic automatism, which recalled the style of artists such as Gorky, Wols, Brauner, Bellmer and Savinio. Thanks to his particular interpretation of European neo-figurativism, Chiarini Boddi managed to create a work that blends everyday life and fantasies, symbols and fetishes, history and news.
In the 1970s, the painter created the "Theatres" series, a collection of works in which he used photographic collages to create a dreamlike world in which figures were immersed in a geometric environment made up of squares. These elements almost created a magical interplay of relationships between the fantastic action of the figures and the rational organization of their environment.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Chiarini Boddi created the "Walls" series in which images and symbols were made to flourish on regular grids that evoked sequences of bricks. In one of his latest works, "Dreaming of (freedom)", the painter alludes to the condition of the mind which must deal with complex and rigid systems. Chiarini Boddi's work is enclosed in complex messages that invite the public to explore the world of dream states and surreal visions, as a vehicle to better understand the reality of the world.
