Biography
erico II University, he lives in Florence since 2005 where he teaches Art and Picture at the Secondary School. She approached late to painting, self-taught. By thoroughly studying the pictorial experiences of seventeenth-century Italian and Flemish naturalism, a lymph that he nourished to elaborate his own idea of reality. A "thin line of shadow" that reaches to the present day from the seventeenth century, in which "pictorial matter, light, shadow, and especially the darkness, become research and characterizing and significant elements of a continuous and constant investigation" .
Professor Carlo Coppola wrote this way:
The painting of A.d.C. it is instinctive and elaborated in the light of the reflection on the contemporary sense of reality. The artist expresses, with every touch of brush on the canvas, his own stylistic history and a powerful technique that synthesizes the lessons of the twentieth-century European figurative and the instances of Neapolitan painting of the sixteenth century. A.d.C. is a profoundly sixteenth-century and Hellenistic at the same time, a heritage that is not a dress to be worn or resigned, but it is the dermis that ripped to the death of art. The plasticity, they have a paint shop where Guarini's shops can not be left by Solofra, Fracanzano, Azzolini, Ribera, Cavallino or Rosa. The stretch then becomes energetic as if it was preparing the matrix for an engraving.
But it is De Chiara who explained the meaning of his painting:
"I never believed painting used to express me (when I want to express myself, cook), and I never defined myself as an artist, a term that I hate, painting for me to completely undo from the context and to live in a foreign dimension in foreign land ... maybe holding their own demons down. "
Antonio De Chiara has collaborated with several national and international galleries, exhibiting in Italian and foreign cities (Rome, Ferrara, Milan, Florence, London), as well as participating and winning numerous paintings competitions in Italy and Europe
He was selected by Vittorio Sgarbi for his participation in EXPOARTEITALIANA, and in 2015 he was selected for FIGURATIVAS 2015, an important international figurative painting competition in Barcelona, a festival presided over by Antonio Lopez Garcia and Odd Nerdrum.
