Bruno Chiarini (1927-2025) - L'onda

Bruno Chiarini (Florence, 1927 - 2025)
The Wave, 1969
Oil on faesite, signed and dated bottom right.

Elegant and luminous composition created in 1969 by the Florentine painter Bruno Chiarini, signed and dated 1969 bottom right.
Fascinating abstract composition with a strong visual impact, where the natural theme of the wave is translated into an elegant and modern formal synthesis. The work unfolds through broad color fields and fluid lines that evoke the continuous movement of water, transformed into a nearly symbolic and timeless form.

The great deep blue curve dominates the scene, contrasting with the lighter and more dynamic mass of the secondary wave, rendered in turquoise and aquatic greens. The background, scored by geometric fields, introduces a warm contrast thanks to the ochre-gold band and the red disk, which recalls a stylized sun or a cosmic element.

Particularly interesting is the use of silver surfaces: these areas show metallic reflections that vary with light, enriching the work with luminous vibrations and giving depth and preciousness to the composition.

The painting is tactile, with a slightly rippled surface that testifies to a conscious and gestural application of color, in line with the abstract research of the 1960s, between informal suggestions and a modernist graphic synthesis.

A balanced and decorative work, capable of dialoguing with contemporary interiors thanks to its refined palette and the iconic strength of the subject.

The painting stands out for the felicitous synthesis between figuration and abstraction: the traditional theme of the landscape is reinterpreted with a modern language, through broad color fields, a simplified construction of volumes, and a background marked by geometrically arranged pairings of great visual effect.

The brushwork, free and clearly perceptible, gives vitality to the painted surface and returns a rich, luminous, and material texture. The result is a work of solid twentieth‑century taste, well representative of Bruno Chiarini’s research, an artist attentive both to formal synthesis and to the expressive force of color.

The work is in excellent condition.

Dimensions of the painting alone: 50 x 60 cm
Dimensions with frame: 68 x 78 cm

The painting is sold with the frame visible in the photo, to be considered a kind courtesy gift from the seller.

On the back there is a handwritten inscription with the title, the year of execution (1969), and a handwritten dedication by the artist to the recipient of the work, dated 1970.

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Bruno Chiarini, born in Florence in 1927 and died in Impruneta in 2025, after completing his diploma as a surveyor devoted himself to the study of painting as a means of expressing his creative tendencies.
He began his artistic training by attending the studios of painters linked to the nineteenth‑century Post-Maccchiaioli tradition, such as Alberto Micheli Pellegrini, Giorgio Kienerk, and Gaetano Spinelli.
Freed then from military service, he dedicated himself with greater resolve to the constructive exploration of the various conceptual tendencies of contemporary painting.
In this period he first experimented with the socialist figuration of his friend Ferdinando Farulli and then with the geometric abstraction of Classical Abstraction by Vinicio Berti, Bruno Brunetti, Alvaro Monnini, and Gualtiero Nativi.
The personal mark to which Chiarini arrives in maturity is that of MAGIC REALISM, in which the Tuscan hilly landscape is abstracted into geometries of fields and hills suspended in time.
Reality, for Chiarini, is the starting point of a transfiguration that passes through imagination and wonder. Thus arose works in which the realistic precision of contours and the solid geometric space are immersed in an atmosphere of magic that makes one feel, through an intense restlessness, almost another dimension in which human life projects itself.
Chiarini participated in important exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including solo shows in Florence in 1965 (Galleria d’Arte Arno) and the 2012 retrospective organized by the Municipality of Impruneta, a town near Florence where he resided.
Alongside figurative art, Bruno Chiarini also devoted himself to poetic composition, publishing several books.