5th april – 24th may 2025

On show, alongside the cities that define the Tuscan artist’s painting style, are 6 works with previously unseen subjects. After 20 years of post-industrial and urban painting, nature reclaims the canvas. This exhibition marks a turning point in Claudio Cionini’s painting, born from the need to explore forms and colors different from his usual ones.

The gradual establishment of a distinctive artistic identity, one of the most interesting in contemporary art, has led to some key moments in Cionini’s career in recent years, encouraging him to experiment with new subjects and painting techniques. As the artist himself confides: “Starting from some fundamental characteristics of urban landscapes, such as depth, atmosphere, and light, I aim to recreate more intimate views, somehow linked to places that are part of my life experience.” For the artist, painting means making visible inner sensations born from contact with reality; it is a way of reconstructing a personal vision of things. The approach to natural themes, therefore, enhances an emotional state full of meditative, introspective, and evocative suggestions. Whether they depict metropolitan cities around the world or the natural landscapes of the Tuscan countryside, what is revealed are new perspectives, leaving the viewer intrigued and suspended, without disrupting the poetry of the atmospheres filled with a lingering silence, made tangible through Cionini’s mastery.

The layers of acrylic, meticulously applied using spatulas and almost scraping the canvas, draw our gaze to explore the nuances of light that permeate urban streets and beyond, rediscovering them as constantly changing every time we pause to observe them. Claudio Cionini’s works are visions and views that aim to capture the essence, depicting places where the presence of humanity is only sensed through car headlights, light glimpsed through a window, or a path trodden in the countryside with a rarefied atmosphere, in a reverent silence that reveals the sensitivity of things or mental places depicted.

An international artist, represented by galleries in Europe and the United States, with numerous institutional exhibitions and works held in private collections around the world, Cionini returns to exhibit in one of his key galleries until May 24.