Raffaele Cioffi: Soglia

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Soluna Fine Art is proud to present Soglia, the first solo exhibition of Italian contemporary painter Raffaele Cioffi with the gallery. The exhibition will feature new oil painting works completed in 2023 from the artist’s signature oeuvre, ‘Soglia’, which he has been developing for over half a decade. Soglia, meaning threshold, represents the visual spaces that Cioffi has been exploring on his canvas by softening and scattering the colors that generate depths and paths, inviting viewers to inwardly step forward into the entrances. His technique may be seen as a symbolic act of liberating the colors from lines to light (returning them to what they are: atoms in the air, flowing and free) that moves and expands through his series like activated monitor screens. This way, Cioffi’s works collectively recreate reality in a surrealistic way, allowing the viewers to reinterpret the world.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Raffaele Cioffi (b. 1971 in Desio, Italy) graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan following the courses of Luciano Fabro, a renowned conceptual sculpture artist. He continued to re-orient his visual research and language after becoming acquainted with painters like Claudio Olivieri and Marcio Raciti, both belonging to the ‘Pittura Pittura’ movement. By purifying the colors into the autonomous entity, Cioffi creates luminescent and ethereal chromatic bodies of light that give fluidity to shapes across the canvas. As a result of this painterly life-like force, the viewers may have tactile and metaphysical experiences when looking at his paintings. Since the nineties, Cioffi has exhibited in private galleries and public institutions in Italy and overseas, including the Museum of Modern Art of Gavirate, Venice Biennale, Villa Clerici-Museo d’Arte Sacra in Milan, Civic Museum of Alessandria, Sala dei Convegni of the museum, Museo d’ Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo Ducale in Mantua, and more.