Convivio (2022) Painting by Michele Giuliani

Painter. Musician. Artist. Michele Giuliani (1976) has been active at various levels in the entertainment and artistic production environment in Italy and abroad since 1995. He lives and works in Bari where he writes, paints, produces, composes and permanently exhibits his works at the Uhuru Art Village, a city cultural space and laboratory dedicated to the arts. Although he grew up as a child surrounded by his father's canvases and colours, Giuliani exclusively favored a musical career from his early youth which led him to record original music and perform around the world. As a self-taught child of art, he arrived at the visual arts only much later when the creative urgency due to social isolation due to the pandemic required him to break his mold and broaden his creative and professional horizons. A transversal artist, natural heir of expressionism in both music and painting, his poetics is aimed at interpreting those intuitions resulting from meditations and observations of daily life and the space around him.

"My innate predisposition for contemplation and spirituality leads me to focus on the hidden meanings of things. On the symbols and rituals that silently envelop our daily lives. I am inspired by the immediacy of the expressionists but I borrow the strength of the sign and color from abstractionism. I mainly use acrylic colors for immediacy and versatility and the supports I usually work on are canvas, board and paper. Mine is an intuitive painting. In painting as in music, I freely manipulate, in form and colour, the materials and elements of the work and portray the subject in its essentiality. Generally using large spatulas and brushes, I give little space to detail, favoring an overall vision and carefully select a few colors with strong tones, working on the work until it becomes stable and significant on both an aesthetic and symbolic level. On the border between realism and metaphysics, I try to satisfy multiple creative and communicative needs through different productions. Working on apparently very distant themes, styles and techniques, all my artworks (from landscapes to unusual human figures, through abstract painting) have a thin veil of mysticism in common. Each artwork becomes a sort of path full of clues to follow and a sure path towards a deeper understanding of oneself." M. Giuliani

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1976
• Artistic domains: Works by artists with a certified artist value,
• Groups: Certified Artists Contemporary Italian Artists