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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=””]An exponent of the young contemporary Italian abstraction, Raffaele Cioffi explores in his works the ability of painting to capture light and transform it into a source of epiphany. His artistic research, characterized by a close dialogue between light, color and silence, proposes an alternative to the superficially attractive and rapid images of contemporaneity and their chromatic pleasantness, asking the viewer for attention, sensitivity and intellectual participation.<\/p>\n

Born in Desio (MB) in 1971, Raffaele Cioffi graduated from the Papa Ratti Art School in Desio, where he began to approach painting. He attended the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, soon deciding to detach himself from the conceptual line represented by Luciano Fabro\u2019s courses to dedicate himself to the path of abstraction. Among his acquaintances are masters such as Claudio Olivieri and Claudio Verna, members of the Pittura Pittura movement, and Mario Raciti, whose teachings profoundly influenced his artistic vision. This legacy is intertwined with suggestions from Morris Louis\u2019 drippings, the compositional structure of Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, the geometry of Frank Stella and the formal interventions of Gerhard Richter, reworked in a deeply personal synthesis that makes painting a ritual and a form of resistance: a means to recreate light and, through it, access a higher dimension of existence.<\/p>\n

In works divided into thematic cycles, the artist explores the relationship between color and space, creating images that open the viewer\u2019s gaze to a suspended and contemplative dimension. Concentric shapes and fluid lines evoke portals to spaces that escape conventional coordinates, inviting the viewer to immerse themselves in a sensorial and emotional experience. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe unstable boundary between interior and exterior \u2013 explored especially in more recent cycles such as Soglia \u2013 has been a recurring theme since the beginning, highlighting the desire to inhabit multiple dimensions simultaneously. His canvases, constructed through overlapping layers of color and careful surface processing, transform light into color to return it as pure light, evoking a third interior and spiritual dimension. In this process, Cioffi\u2019s painting, slow and meditative, asserts itself as an act of resistance and contemplation, reclaiming the two-dimensional surface as the primary place of visual experience.<\/p>\n

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EXHIBITIONS<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2024
\n\u201cLa vita promessa\u201d – Museo Abbazia di Montecassino, Cassino (FR)<\/p>\n

2023
\n\u201cSoglia\u201d – Soluna Fine Art, Hong Kong
\n\u201cElective affinities\u201d – Galleria Monopoli, Milano
\n\u201cLa luce liberate\u201d – Circo degli Esteri della Farnesina, Roma<\/p>\n

2022
\n\u201cLuce ombra pittura\u201d – Palazzo Ducale, Mantova
\n\u201cCostellazioni\u201d – Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Francoforte
\n\u201cCostellazione\u201d – Arc Gallery, Monza
\n\u201cSolo show\u201d – Arte Fiera Bologna
\n\u201cPer una collezione\u201d – Galleria Monopoli, Milano<\/p>\n

2021
\n\u201cSoglie 2018-2020\u201d – Mac Museo d\u2019Arte Contemporanea, Lissone (MB)<\/p>\n

2020
\n\u201cEine Wolke in meinem Garten\u201d – Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Francoforte<\/p>\n

2018-2019
\n\u201cVapors of light\u201d – Galleria Monopoli, Milano<\/p>\n

2018
\n\u201cGemaltes Licht \/ Luce dipinta\u201d – Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Francoforte
\n\u201cOdyssey of lights\u201d – Eye contemporary art , Hong Kong<\/p>\n

2017
\n\u201cLight screens\u201d – LM Gallery Arte Contemporanea, Latina<\/p>\n

2016
\n\u201cSolidit\u00e0 della luce\u201d – Museo Civico, Palazzo Cuttica, Alessandria
\n\u201cUna storia di pittura a Nova Milanese\u201d – Villa Vertua, Nova Milanese (MB)
\n\u201cFluidit\u00e0 del paesaggio\u201d – Gallery Cart, Monza
\n2015
\n\u201cCioffi \u2013 Finelli\u201d – Casa dello Zecchiere, Milano
\n\u201cLux Lucis\u201d – Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Francoforte<\/p>\n

2014
\n\u201cAlla luce della Croce\u201d – Villa Clerici, Galleria d\u2019Arte Sacra dei Contemporanei, Milano e Chiesa di San Bernardino alle Ossa, Milano
\n\u201cOmaggio a Michelangelo\u201d – Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Francoforte<\/p>\n

2013
\n\u201cSipario\u201d – Villa Bagatti Valsecchi, Varedo (MB)<\/p>\n

2012
\n\u201cIl ritmo del colore\u201d – Spazio e Tempo Progetto Arte, Cagliari
\n\u201cIl senso e il colore\u201d – The White Gallery, Milano \u201cBiennale di Venezia\u201d, Padiglione Italia, Torino<\/p>\n

2011
\n\u201cL\u2019auramara\u201d – Ex Chiesa di San Carpoforo, Milano
\n\u201cIl ritmo del colore\u201d – Spazio Concept, Milano
\n\u201cArte Accessibile\u201d – Il sole 24 ore, Milano<\/p>\n

2010
\n\u201cDer emotionale Raum der Malerei\u201d – Galerie Vorstadt 14, Zug<\/p>\n

2009
\n\u201cLo spazio emotivo della pittura\u201d – Museo Nazionale Villa Pisani, Stra (VE)
\n\u201cLo spazio emotivo della pittura\u201d – Spazio Tadini, Milano
\n\u201cLo spazio emotivo della pittura\u201d – Galleria Alexander Alvarez, Alessandria<\/p>\n

2008
\n\u201cGenerazioni anni \u201870\u201d – Spazio Guicciardini, Milano
\n\u201cil rosso e il nero\u201d – Galleria Silvano lodi & due, Milano<\/p>\n

2007
\n\u201cDin Don Arte\u201d – Villa Bertarelli, Galbiate (LC)
\n\u201cProfilo d\u2019Arte\u201d – Palazzo della Permanente, Milano
\n\u201cGenerazione anni \u201870\u201c – Civico Museo Parisi-Valle, Maccagni (VA)
\n2005
\nGalleria Pangeart, Bellinzona
\nEsposizioni fieristiche, Galleria Concetti d\u2019Arte,
\nOsnago (LC)<\/p>\n

2003
\nGalleria Sekanina, Ferrara
\n\u201cSotto sopra\u201d – Galleria Edieuropa, Roma
\n\u201cSul filo del colore\u201d- Galleria Ezio Mariani, Seregno (MB)
\n\u201cProspettiva interiore\u201d – Chiostro di Voltorre Museo d\u2019Arte Moderna, Gavirate (VA)<\/p>\n

2002
\n\u201cPremio Lissone\u201d – Civica Pinacoteca di Lissone,
\nLissone (MB)
\n\u201cRaffaele Cioffi\u201d – Open Art gallery, Milano
\n\u201cVisione Interiore\u201d
\nitinerante:
\n– Palazzo Bargnani Dandalo, Adro (BS)
\n– Villa Glisenti, Villa Carcina (BS)
\n– Fondazione Cicogna Rampana,
\nPalazzolo sull\u2019Oglio (BS)
\n– Chiesa dei Disciplini, Castenedolo (BS)<\/p>\n

2001
\n\u201cIl volto dell\u2019anima\u201d – Young Museum,
\nMuseo d\u2019Arte Contemporanea, Revere (MN)
\nCavenaghi Arte, Milano<\/p>\n

1999
\nRassegna di Pittura Bice Bugatti, Nova Milanese (MB)
\nXXXIX Premio Suzzara, Suzzara (MN)<\/p>\n

1998
\n\u201cRaffaele Cioffi\u201d – BSH, Milano<\/p>\n

1997
\n\u201cRaffaele Cioffi\u201d – Centro Culturale Maggi, Sesto San Giovanni (MI)
\nRassegna di Pittura Bice Bugatti, Nova Milanese (MB)<\/p>\n

1996
\n\u201cPremio San Carlo Borromeo\u201d – Palazzo della Permanente, Milano
\n\u201cRaffaele Cioffi\u201d – Galleria Lodi, Los Angeles
\n1995
\n\u201cRaffaele Cioffi\u201d – Salone Clerici ACLI, Milano<\/p>\n

1994
\n\u201cRaffaele Cioffi\u201d – Galleria Morone 6, Milano<\/p>\n

1993
\n\u201cRaffaele Cioffi\u201d – Villa Ghirlanda, Cinisello Balsamo (MI)<\/p>\n

1991
\n\u201cNigra Lux\u201d – Il Centro, Nova Milanese (MB)<\/p>\n

1989
\n\u201cRaffaele Cioffi\u201d – Villa Reale, Monza<\/p>\n

1988
\n\u201cRaffaele Cioffi\u201d – UCAI – Ass. Culturale Artisti Italiani, Milano<\/p>\n

Collection selection
\nCollezione del moderno e contemporaneo del Palazzo Ducale, Mantova;
\nBanca Profilo, Milano;
\nCivico Museo Parisi-Valle, Maccagni;
\nMuseo Civico, Palazzo Cuttica, Alessandria.<\/p>\n

Critics who have written about his work
\nFlaminio Gualdoni, Claudio Cerritelli,
\nMarco Meneguzzo, Giovanni Maria Accame, Francesco Tedeschi, Martin Engler, Iris Hasler,
\nAlberto Barranco di Valdivieso, Corinna Longoni, Roberto Capitanio, Claudio Baglioni,
\nRoberto Borghi, Nicola Demitri, Pietro Finelli,
\nCarlo Franza, Matteo Galbiati, Luca Pietro Nicoletti,
\nClaudio Olivieri, Mario Raciti, Vera Agosti,
\nMartina Valente, Valeria Vaccari.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”32″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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