Isola d'Elba Loc Viticcio (2020) Painting by Claudio Domenici

Claudio Domenici was born in Florence in 1943.

Son of art - his father Carlo Domenici was one of the most illustrious exponents of the Labronica School of the twentieth century, or rather of that group of Macchiaioli artists who between 1900 and 1950 experienced great artistic and professional maturity - he assumed the pseudonym "Claudio da Firenze ” precisely to distinguish himself from the famous parent his first teacher, the one who fully understanding his talents for drawing and painting finally encouraged him to take this artistic path. Therefore, after attending the Art Institute of Florence and the School of Graphic Art, and having experimented with interest as an advertising poster and graphic designer, he began his career by participating with considerable success in his first exhibitions and competitions.

Claudio was and is a free spirit. His artistic training, his gradual evolution, have evident roots in his innate spirit of "traveller" which led him from a young age to live intensely in different places, savoring the different colors and moods and then transferring their thousand facets to the table. Since 1968, countless exhibitions in which he has participated both in Italy and abroad. Among the most important, we recall the personal exhibitions of the Spanish period, held in Madrid, Barcelona, Gerona and Lloret de Mar; as well as those organized in the States, in Los Angeles, in San Francisco, in New York, at the Zantman Gallery in Palm Desert or Carmel, where Claudio's paintings are exhibited permanently; finally London and Lugano.

Claudio's favorite subjects are life scenes. All of them, whether they belong to the countryside or the sea, it doesn't matter, what matters is the possibility that they can be observed and "lived", in an attempt to perceive their innermost feelings, thoughts, joys, worries, loves and everyday life. In fact, for an artist like Domenici who has traveled a lot trying - almost always succeeding - to integrate into the customs and rhythms of life of the places and people he frequents, even the investigation of the past takes on contemporary tones. When he explores, representing it with his palette, a social phenomenon such as immigration - for example - he does so with the pleasure and enjoyment of almost retracing the "sentimental and emotional DNA" of the people who have been protagonists, aware that this experience it represents the root of the subsequent evolution of that same social nucleus.

All this while proudly maintaining the imprint of the Livorno school in an excellent fusion of personality - Claudio is stubborn, strong, difficult - instinct, creativity and expressiveness that allows him
to grapple beautifully with a variety of subjects.

All these qualities certainly make Claudio da Firenze one of the most important artists of contemporary figurative painting, not only in Italy, but also in Europe and worldwide; ...

• Nationality: ITALY
• Date of birth : 1943
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Italian Artists