Giorgio Casari
For me, painting means getting closer to the things you can see, whilst I am drawn to what cannot be seen... Painting builds a bridge between these two dimensions.
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1962 Born in Pavia

1967 Moved to Florence, where he began attending school

1977 Began painting

1981 Obtained his scientific baccalaureate

1982 Moved to West Berlin, where, in October, he began his studies at the Hochschule der Künste,     the Academy of Fine Arts, in Prof. Marwan’s class

1986: undertook a six-month trip to the USA, working and studying in New York and San Francisco

1988: graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in West Berlin

1992: returned to Italy and settled in the Tuscan countryside of Chianti, in S. Donato in Poggio, where he lived and painted

1996: moved to Rome, where he currently lives and works

Group exhibitions

1983 Klasse Marwan, Academy of Fine Arts, West Berlin

1985 Painters from Berlin, Gauting Town Hall (Munich)

1999 Myths and Micromyths, curated by Giovanna Uzzani, at the Cassioli Museum, Asciano (Si)

2000 ‘Rome and its River’, curated by E.M. Eleuteri, Torretta di Ponte Milvio, Rome

2001 ‘Artists in Wonderland’, curated by Ralph Wollheim, Alte Schule Baruth, Baruth (Berlin)

2002 ‘Montags’, curated by Marwan, Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin

2003 ‘San Francesco a Ripa’ Prize, curated by M. Pochesci, Historical Museum of the Infantry, Rome

2003 54th Edition of the Michetti Prize, curated by D. Trombadori, Francavilla al Mare (Ch)

2004 The Wayfarer and the Shell, Hotel Scoiattolo, Baselga di Piné, Trento

2004 ‘Simboli’, Galleria Gard, Rome

2006 ‘Fragile’, Hotel Scoiattolo, Baselga di Piné, Trento

2008 ‘Sommerimpression – Contemporary Realism’, TVDART Galerie, Berlin

2009 ‘One World’, Infantellina Contemporary, Berlin

2009 ‘Il Giocattolo’, Palazzo Rospigliosi, curated by Francesco Zero, Zagarolo (Rome)

2010 Macro, Spaziottagoni, curated by Giuseppe Salerno, Rome

2010 Der Spaziergang des Künstlers, Galerie Sophien-Edition, Berlin

2017 Du liebes Tier II, Kunstraum Schulte-Goltz-Noelte, Essen

2017 Mona Lisa, Kunstraum Schulte-Goltz-Noelte, Essen

2019 Fundamenta, Wittstock (Berlin), curated by Frank Pieperhoff

Solo exhibitions

1997 Giorgio Casari, curated by C. Rava, ‘L’Isola’ Gallery, Trento

1998 In memory of Mario Mariotti II, curated by P. Bortolotti and G. Uzzani, Florence Dance Centre, Florence

1998 Micromiti, at Susanna Ragionieri and Francesco Tricca’s, Florence

2000 Presepe 2000, Cassa di Risparmio di Civitavecchia, Rome

2004 I cieli e la terra, Palazzo Farnese, Gradoli (Vt)

2005 Es ist einmal..., Annette Kreutter Jewellers, Cologne

2005 La mia storia con l'Agnello, Annette Kreutter Jewellers, Cologne

2006 Figuren, Galerie Rieder, Munich

2007 Current Positions, Galerie Golkar, Cologne

2009 La madre armena, Galleria Vista, Rome

2011 Design and execution of the decorative work on the side aisles of the church of Sancta Maria Regina Pacis in the Monteverde district of Rome, featuring wall paintings and mosaics

2011 Drawings, studies and sketches, Libreria Leoniana, Rome

2018 ‘Mir reichen Brot und Wurst’, Claudia Picht’s Studio, Kunsthaus Rhenania, Cologne

2024 Microcosmi e Xilocosmi, Areaderma, with Ivan Boneccher, Baselga di Piné (Trento)

2024 The He framer and the She Freud, with Petra Scherzer, Atelier Bruno Kuhlmann, Munich

2026 Microcosmi e Xilocosmi 2, Areaderma, with Ivan Boneccher, Baselga di Piné (Trento)

 

 

 

 


 
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