Giuseppe Chiari

Giuseppe Chiari, a well known artist of the italien Fluxus movement, exhibits for the second time (after december 2004) at the Depardieu Gallery in Nice. This exhibition bears witness through several historical master-pieces, to the coherent path of the artist who has strongly influenced Visual Poetry, post-Fluxus music, as well as the dissipative languages of the young generations of Post-Conceptual Italians.

According to Chiari, music and art express themselves in a « total » way because « total » is his world vision. By emancipating ourselves from all materials and technics' integrity, we immediatly escape from the market's identity and it's instrumentalisation. Art can thus change from « production of objects » to « production of experience ».
The musical and gestural action, fragment, document, photocpie, typographic press, paper, book, manipulated instrument, word, sound etc. are all elements of Chiari's work used to visually maximise his trangression of « continous », as a research for new and original elements, to insert in the game of Art History. His work takes part in a logical system of « paraconsistant » type which precisely admits contradictory shapes. We thus reash a kind of an overthrow of the « leibnitien » postulate. It isn't the possible worlds that found the laws of logic, but on the contrary, it is we who chose several ideas of a possible world, according to our logic of existence. The figures of the musiciens Sylvano Bussotti and Giuseppe Chiari were central for the formalization of this range of knowledge in music and art metabolizing it in a new language.
But it's with Radical Architecture, born in 1965/66 in Florence, that this paradigm of indetermination finds an indelible historical testimony.
Giuseppe Chiari took part in four Biennal of Venice and fourteen Fluxus Festivals in Europe. The Kunsthalle du Fridericianum Museum of Kassel dedicated him a restrospective in 2001 and the National Moder Art Galerie of Rome carried out an exhibition of his work in 2005.