Giorgio Casari is born in Pavia in 1962. He receives his early schooling in Florence, moving to West Berlin in 1982 to study at the Academy of Fine Arts (HdK). He returns to Italy in 1992, first in the Chianti countryside in Tuscany and then, starting from 1996, in Rome, where he currently lives and works.
He begins working on his art at the age of 15, driven by the need to communicate images corresponding to states of mind and interior visions. His skills as a painter evolve from an initial naive, immediate approach, until, thanks to an in-depth study and contemplation of past masters (especially the Dutch still-life artists of the 1600’s, during his years of training in Berlin, immediately following his studies at the Academy), he achieves his current, highly sensual relationship with colour as a material, using it as a backdrop for metaphorical and metaphysical narrations. The works of recent years address themes such as the life and death of man, his passions and defeats, violence and mercy, in an ongoing attempt to establish an all-encompassing spiritual outlook ultimately capable, despite everything, of expressing and communicating hope.
In recent years he has shown his works primarily in Germany, with shows in Munich (Galerie Rieder, 2006), Cologne (Galerie Golkar, 2007) and Berlin (Blueprint, 2009; Galerie Infantellina Contemporary, 2009).
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