Giuseppe Chiari -Chitarra-

He was a musician, pianist and visual artist and was part of the Fluxus movement. He began writing music from 1950 “a music, that of 1950, which anticipates minimalism by 20 years”. His compositions of the first period are the Intervals and the Studies on the single frequency. Among the following works Gesti sul piano of 1962 and L’arte è facile of 1972. Within the Fluxus group he experiments with the concept of visual music by combining visual and musical art in a continuum where music is characterized by its visual component. “On the visual arts front, abstractionism and the conceptual irreversibly conquer the incorporeity typical of musical expression”. He is an exponent and main promoter of the Florentine artistic current, operating from the end of the Second World War to today, defined Art Music (Visual Music and Fluxus) including Giancarlo Cardini, Daniele Lombardi, Albert Mayr, Pietro Grossi , Sylvano Bussotti, Marcello Aitiani and Sergio Maltagliati. These musicians have experimented with the interaction between sound, gesture and vision, a synesthetics of art resulting from the historical avant-gardes, from Kandinsky to Futurism, from Scriabin to Schönberg, up to the Bauhaus. There are numerous group exhibitions in which he participated, we recall here some such as the X° Quadrennial of Rome the International Art Exhibition of Venice in 1972, 1976, 1978, Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972, the Biennale of Sydney of 1990. There are numerous solo shows both before and after the master’s death, we recall some of the most important: the one held at the “Careof DOCVA” Center for the documentation of visual arts in Milan in 2009 entitled Giuseppe Chiari, the 2011 performance exhibition held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome curated by Achille Bonito Oliva for the FLUXUS BIENNIAL project[10]; the one in 2013 at the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art entitled About Giuseppe Chiari, the one held in 2014 at Palazzo Tagliaferro in Andora entitled Giuseppe Chiari – The years of the avant-garde and beyond, the one held in 2015 at the Diotti Museum entitled Giuseppe Chiari – Quit Classic Music, the anthology held at the Miart in Milan in 2016. His works are kept in numerous museums: at the Gori Collection in Santomato di Pistoia, in the permanent collection of Palazzo Fabroni in Pistoia, the work Art is to say from the Palli collection at the Museo Novecento in Florence, various works at the Experimental Museum of Contemporary Art in L’Aquila and at MAMBO in Bologna.