| GIUSEPPE CHIARI | you can also see the exhibition and the works on ARTSY | |
| grande formato – otto spartiti | ||
| 20 may – 15 june 2021 |
Excerpts from a conversation with Giuseppe Chiari. Andrea Alibrandi: interview of January 25, 2006, in Giuseppe Chiari. Mi hanno cercato, Il Ponte editions, Florence 2006
I was a contemporary musician, I was perhaps a writer, I was considered a poet […] my compositions were thought of a contemporary literature because they were strange. I was not a painter […] I became one a little later - because I worked with ink […] I also did a lot of photos, so there was already some kind of visual work. | ||
Giuseppe Chiari, Senza titolo (Happening Kunstmesse Basel), 1984, n°1, 3 black and white photographs on paper 25,2x19,2 cm each |
Thank’s to Sylvano Bussotti, with whom I began to work closely, I met Heinz Klaus Metzger, that I got an enormous amount of information. At a distance, it was this knowledge that enabled me to get into Fluxus. Because in Fluxus we don’t ask a lot but we do ask people who know what’s going on in the world, very well informed. | ||
Giuseppe Chiari, Senza titolo (Happening Kunstmesse Basel), 1984, n°3, 3 black and white photographs on paper 25,2x19,2 cm each |
The musical scores that I did […] represented a change in the way the musical score was presented and read. What a musical score conveys can be an informal painting. There are my scores for the cello and the piano based on signs - an informal painting which could also be called sign painting. | ||
Giuseppe Chiari, Suonare la stanza, 1974, fotografia in biaco e nero su carta 32x24,5 cm, courtesy Liliana De Matteis |
I was very fond of informal. There’s a significant overlapping between informal and improvisation. I did special numbers on improvisation […] that is really a multi-disciplinary technique, automatic writing in literature, gestural expression in painting, the musica d’azione in my Il metodo per piano. | ||
Giuseppe Chiari, Il pianoforte come un carro, 1982, black and white photograph on paper 89x78 cm |
The sign scores were scores created for instrument, for the cello, for the guitar,…they’ve also been performed. The idea of music was there, but is was gestural music, visual music that breaks down the barrier between sound and noise, between space and time. | ||
Giuseppe Chiari, Senza Titolo, 1973, black and white photograph on paper 29,5x23,5 cm, courtesy Liliana De Matteis |
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