Andrea Chiesi presents a series of canvases inspired by a German
experimental music group called S.P.K., the name of which, Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv, comes from some mentally ill patients in West Germany who in the ‘70s were inspired by the Baader-Meinhof activities and who jumped up in the air while they constructed explosive devices in the psychiatric hospital in which they were put away. In these new urban visions that are more and more spare and elliptical, tending even towards formal abstraction, Chiesi does not ignore the insinuating presence of
alienation in everyday life within the current opulent society that has
perhaps reached its final phase. He takes on the challenge that until recently seemed distant and shows that painting can likewise also herald
intellectual anguish and critical spirit.
— Luca Beatrice


Selected solo exhibitions: 2002: Inga-Pin, Milan; 2001: Lipanjepuntin, Trieste; Villa Delle Rose, Bologna; 2000: Maurizio Corraini, Mantova; 1998: Sergio Tossi, Prato; Nickel, Seebruck, Germany; 1997: ES, Turin.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: Young Italian Genome, Buia Gallery, New York; Italian Black and White, Davide Di Maggio, Berlin; 2002: Identità italiane, Museo del Corso, Rome; Future visioni, Museo Provinciale, Potenza, Italy; 2001: Pay attention please, MAN, Nuoro, Italy; S.A.A., Giancarla Zanutti, Milan; 2000: Sui generis, PAC, Milan; 1999: GAM, Bologna; 1997: Aperto 97, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy.