Giulio Ciampi

Giulio Ciampi is tuscan by birth, but Milanese by adoption, since the early '70s, he has dedicated himself with great passion to the figurative arts, with the intention of always exploring new paths. The first pictorial compositions are large acrylic paintings with abstract-figurative subject which will be followed, in the following years works increasingly devoted to maximum abstraction.

Since the early '80s Ciampi intensifies his artistic work finding new inspiration in places lived in contact with nature, and in particular the familiar landscapes of origin of the hinterland of Livorno, those of Liguria facing the mountain of Portofino and finally, with a strong sense of belonging, Greece. And it is precisely in the character of Mediterranean nature that Ciampi rediscovers those creative emotions that had always inspired him, and over time.

"The inspiration can come from the signs of Nature or from an unexpected intuition that guides the hand towards the exploration of a different language. A creative work and an existential path that I have never wanted to grow within the classical tracks of public and critical recognition, accepting to exhibit occasionally and only in recent times".

The Signs of Nature are the stones of the sea that the water has engraved with shapes and colors, shells and woods worked by wind and sand and that are offered to the artist's gaze as an unexpected gift. For Ciampi the king is the color: he subjects the signs, the shapes, the arrangement of the elements that make up the work.

"What can capture emotion" - the artist asks himself - "more than that red, black, yellow, blue on a white background? It is an extreme synthesis of beauty. But then I don't stop at that first sign, I advance on the canvas, because I feel the need for other strong liberating traits, dispensers of energy"

Thus the violence of color, lines, and sometimes metallic inclusions find a mutual completion and much sought after harmony.

Another very personal episode then pushed the artist towards the use of silver, metal and perspex, that is the painful legacy left to him by his younger sister, who died unexpectedly: a series of plates, saucers, gloves, silver bowls, with which he created the work "Ballerina".

From that moment on Giulio Ciampi discovered the use of steel sheet instead of color, glue instead of brushes and perspex instead of canvas.