Gianni Chiriatti
(Borgagne)
Officina Meridionale Kaliani
Gianni Chiriatti a.k.a. “Borgagne” is an an artist from Salento born in Switzerland who has returned to his homeland to bring to life unprecedented pieces of reality or unreality.
Chiriatti is an environmental concept artist.
He has an inherent ability to create emotions, evoking worlds suspended between illustration, narrative and direction, in which figures emerge with an absent but atmospheric perspective. His motto is: “The smell of the plant is the thought of being transferred to the canvas.” A philosophy that starts from nature and vibrates between thoughts and scents, in a continuum between mind and body, between ritual and place.
His works – divided into multidisciplinary cycles between painting, photography, installations and video – in the trilogy between human, animal and plant nature, accompany the viewer in a visual enchantment, into a room of wonders animated by zoomorphic, sometimes erotic characters and narrative counterpoints present in the paintings.
In both pictorial and photographic works, Chiriatti shows a fresco of our humanity with a pictorial vividness accompanied by an insistent drama.
Chiriatti invites us to reflect on the social and natural spaces we inhabit and does so through his works where elements of wild nature and elements of everyday use coexist. He has a histrionic personality and a lifestyle that is intuitable to those about to visit his atelier “Officina Meridionale Kaliani,” an enchanted place in time and space, a metaphysical space, where the artist inhabits, draws nourishment for his works.
