Civiero Art Gallery, in collaboration with the Cultural Department of the City of Diano Marina and Guidi&Schoen Gallery of Genoa, is hosting the solo exhibition Dharmata by artist Andrea Chiesi from December 13, 2025 to January 11, 2026. The exhibition is held in the “R. Falchi” of the Park Palace, Corso Garibaldi 60, in Diano Marina (Imperia), with opening scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 13, at 5 p.m., in the presence of the artist. Dharmata, a term derived from the Sanskrit word dharmatā and translatable as “essential nature of phenomena,” constitutes the leitmotif of the entire exhibition, which brings together about twenty works made in ink on paper. The selection documents the most recent phase of Chiesi’s research, focused on the analysis of the places and structures that characterize daily life, reinterpreted in a contemplative and meditative key.
Chiesi’s work is distinguished by the technical precision of the sign, which appears sharp, almost surgical, and by a measured use of light, capable of sculpting architectural forms and giving depth to the spaces represented. Environments such as disused industrial warehouses, empty corridors and metal scaffolding are transformed by the artist into interior landscapes. In these scenarios, absence takes a central role: lines become vehicles of thought, shadows an expression of visual meditation, and suspended spaces are configured as gateways to a deeper silent perception. In the works on display, nature emerges in places abandoned by man, suggesting a life force capable of regenerating and restoring meaning to disused structures. Ink, monochrome or declined in reduced color ranges, becomes an instrument of concentration and contemplation: the absence of superfluous elements guides the gaze toward a slower and more meditative vision, which privileges the essential over the figurative narrative. The composition of the spaces expressed by Chiesi does not communicate degradation or abandonment, but presence and possibility. Thus, the construction of the landscapes takes place with rigor and silence, without emphasizing the past of the environments, but paying attention to the interaction between the structure and the viewer’s perception. The December 13 vernissage will offer an opportunity to meet the author and explore the exhibition directly with him.
Born in Modena on November 6, 1966, he lives between San Pancrazio, Milan and Rome. He studied literature and held art residencies in Brooklyn (2010), Berlin (2011) and Beijing (2015). One of the leading Italian artists of his generation, he began in the 1980s as a draftsman for independent publications, making ink-on-paper works and notebooks with eerie figures and abandoned places, often collaborating with musicians and writers.
His research focuses on the contemporary landscape, time and memory, with particular attention to industrial areas, suburbs and spaces suspended in time. He has developed a rigorous oil-on-linen painting that integrates concepts of impermanence and vacuity. His most recent works return to ink on paper and are dedicated to nature, from places abandoned by man to nature understood as a metaphor for the human condition and the universal process of cause-and-effect, calledNatura Vincit. He received the Gotham Prize from the Italian Cultural Institute of New York (2012), the Terna Prize (2008), the V Cairo Editore Prize (2004) and the XXXVIII Suzzara Prize (1998). He has collaborated with the Academies of Fine Arts in Ravenna, Macerata, Bologna, Perugia and Catanzaro and holds a chair in drawing and painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan.
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| Andrea Chiesi investigates the essence of places in "Dharmata" in Diano Marina, Imperia |
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