CLAUDIO NICOLINI. The different ways of life and painting

Difficult to catalog the artistic profile of Claudio Nicolini, except as a tireless experimenter. On the other hand, the long experience of the creative must have underlined, strengthened on the occasion to define two spaces that seem to allude to the Venetian Campielli, his flair for brilliant inventiveness and, mostly, it must have given him that spirit of transformation, that need to try new techniques and effects to decline one's own expressive research. There are artists, in fact, that developed a procedure, they tirelessly continue on that path throughout their careers: in that case, the artistic path, when and as long as there is development, it unfolds on a purely formal level. There are others instead, like Nicolini, who try their hand at a given repertoire of shapes, subjecting it to the most varied checks and treatments. Nicolini's research, in fact, it has always been experimental, both from a technical point of view, rather "new recipes", as his sculptor friend Stefano Soddu wrote to him in an affectionate letter, both from that of language.
They remained constant, however, the coordinates of his investigation around the figure, even if declining towards abstraction, as the artist himself said in an interview, and around the themes of memory: his, in fact, remains a painting populated by “presences”; of arcana, of footprints. […]
Taken from the text "Ipotesi sull'ombra" by Luca Pietro Nicoletti

The monograph was created on the occasion of the anthological exhibition “All for a dream”, Palace of the Commissioner, Priamar Fortress, Savona, 7 September – 30 September 2013.