Celi is an artist of continuous creative youth

“... Celi is an artist of continuous creative youth; he can combine an uncontainable sense of research and a particular comparison of expressive means. His artistic vivacity covers a wide sphere of research, moving from the realistic to the informal painting, with references to the last international artistic tendencies, which his troubled mind investigates with curiosity and interest. In his works you can recognize references to the American and Italian Pop Art, Nouveau Rèalisme and Arte Povera, signs of dadaistic and metaphysical poetics and the habitual reading of informal art, especially of the informal pertaining to matter, of European education, peculiar to the post-war Italian visual culture. The eclecticism of his production conveys the complexity of his intellectual interests, which move him towards a kind of research both informal and relating to context. Celi’s works represent the break with the tradition, the alarming scream against ignorance, the condemnation of the perverted logic of commodification which corrupts the artistic process and deprives it of that purity which should be its own foundation, the slap to conservatives and the consequent tearing of rules and behaviours. Tearing considered as a peremptory and critical deed which opens new ways to the understanding and connection between art and life. What really matters is not what you can find in appearance but the untied and fragmented aspect of an existing dimension, destined to change under the jointly responsible eyes of the observer. Celi’s works are real metaphors of themselves, in an ambiguity that considers the universal and the visionary, the unescapable and the temporary, the usual way and the new, the real and the virtual, the visible and the invisible, history and memory...”

T. M.