The contemporary landscape becomes an intimate interior carefully and meticulously depicted by Andrea Chiesi in his oil-on-canvas paintings. The artist, along with the collective \u201cZimmerFrei\u201d, is the winner of the 2013 Gotham Prize awarded by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.<\/P>
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3rd edition of the \u2018Gotham Prize\u2019<\/STRONG><\/STRONG><\/P> Now in its 3rd edition, the competition offers artists the opportunity to have a one-month exhibition at the Institute\u2019s Park Avenue headquarters. Just back from the United States, the Modena-born painter spoke of \u201can important opportunity, in a beautiful space\u201d, that gave him \u201cinternational visibility\u201d. However, this was not the Italian artist\u2019s first time in New York, where he has been working for several years now with the Nohra Haime Gallery and has participated in group shows and even lived for several months in an artists community in Brooklyn. Chiesi brought a selection of 15 recent paintings to The US for the Institute show, all of which are pictorial interpretations of real places he has visited.<\/P> Industrial archaeology and the contemporary landscape<\/STRONG><\/STRONG><\/P> \u201cEverything comes out of my explorations and travels, which I then reinvent as interior mental spaces\u201d, the artist explained, stressing his perception of \u201cthe contemporary landscape as if it were a body\u201d. Three colours dominate \u2013 black, white and gray with some bluish tones. He began with industrial architecture, drawing inspiration from areas of his own home city as well as parts of Turin, Genoa, Naples and Rome, later extending his gaze to Brooklyn and Berlin, where he lived for some months. His latest works include a series called \u201cUconie\u201d, which \u201care located in a suspended physical and temporal space\u201d. <\/P> Competing on the international scenario<\/STRONG><\/STRONG><\/STRONG><\/P> Throughout his artistic career, Chiesi has always felt the need to go abroad, \u201cyou have to compete on the international scenario if you want to grow\u201d, the artist underscored, \u201cand competing in New York, the crossroads of the world, is difficult but also quite a challenge\u201d. The economic crisis is a minor concern for the Modenese artist, who instead views it as \u201can incentive, a stimulus\u201d that \u201cforces you to find solutions, to grow\u201d. <\/P> \u201cThere have always been crises, painters of the past went through wars and pestilence and still produced masterpieces\u201d, Chiese added, stressing \u201cthe centrality of the work, the rest takes on much less importance; artists must not allow themselves to be influenced by crises\u201d. The importance of being promoted abroad must not be underestimated, and the Gotham Prize \u201ca praiseworthy operation\u201d gives artists \u201ca showcase, which is a way to support not only the creativity but also the economy\u201d of Italy.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The contemporary landscape becomes an intimate interior carefully and meticulously depicted by Andrea Chiesi in his oil-on-canvas paintings. The artist, along with the collective \u201cZimmerFrei\u201d, is the winner of the 2013 Gotham Prize awarded by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York. 3rd edition of the \u2018Gotham Prize\u2019 Now in its 3rd edition, the competition […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[397,32],"class_list":["post-13475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-america-settentrionale","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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