GIORGIO SOREL
-ABOUT THE ARTIST-
Giorgio Sorel was born in Bologna in 1939;in 1945 he moved
with his family to Tuna, near Gazzola
(Piacenza),where he still lives.During the Sixties he attended the course in
Cinematography in Rome,and stopped it after some time to fully devote himself
to painting.In the Sixties he started working as fashion and leather goods
desingner;meanwhile,and in the following decade, he intensified his artistic
activity moving toward Expressionism,with works that focus on man and his
retalionship with existence.In the meantime he started experimenting with the
use of different materials in the work of art.During the Nineties he refused to
go the USA and London in order to start a more intensive and continuative
exhibiting activity,wich inclused a number of one-man exhibitions and the
participation in the collettive exhibitions,among which it is worth remembering
the one-man exhibition in 1998 in Piacenza (La Meridiana art gallery),the one
in 2000 at San Michele Cultural Centre in Milan,followed in 2001 by the a great
exhibition at the Arthur Miller Gallery in Miami, USA.In 2003 a one-man
exhibition was held in the foyer of the Verdi Theatre in Fiorenzuola (Piacenza)
and another one in S°Agostino church,in Piacenza.As regards the collettive
exhibitions, we need to mention those in the Netherlands in 1997 ,in Strasbourg
in the same year,in Geneva and Madrid in
1998, and again in Amsterdam in 1999.In 2001 the Artist partecipated in the
Autumn Exhibition in Rome and the Biennals in Florence and Rome,where he was
present in 2002 and 2003 as well.The Nineties were characterized by a wide pictorial production dedicated to
Holocaust themes, the Serb-Bosnian war and the so-called local conflicts.In the
same period Sorel intensified the experimentation work,dealing with different
materials and preparing for the fundamental themes,concerning man and his
relationship with himself and the world,that have been marking Sorel's activity
since 2000,with the aim of exploring interiority as a path toward one's most
intimate and secret truth.Among the numerous publications dedicated to Giorgio
Sorel's art we would like to mention the monographic essay(2004)by the art
historians Lucia Miodini of CSAC in Parma,with texts by Luciano Carini, called
“SOREL-In the magic Circle of Grace and Nightmare”,published on the occasion of
the great anthological exhibition at Palazzo Farnese,Piacenza,and of the
following exhibition(2006)at Cariparma e Vigevano Foundation.In 2007 Giorgio
Sorel exhibited in Mantua at the Diocesan Museum,and in Cremona at the Town
Hall and Ponchielli Theatre;in February 2008 he partecipated in the Art
International Fair of Innsbruck.In the same year he exposed the first
exhibition about the itinerant “Il Cerchio e la Shoah”, to Reggia di Colorno
(Parma), and in October of 2010 Sala del Baraccano in Bologna, in January about
the Memory's Day to Sala S°Rita Roma.
Mostre
personali – antologiche
1995.
Grazzano Visconti – Piacenza
1997.
Galleria Palma Arte – Alseno – Piacenza
1998.
Galleria La Meridiana – Piacenza
2000.
Centro Culturale San Michele – Milano
2001. Arthur Miller Gallery –
Deefeld Beach – Miami – USA
2003.
Foyer Teatro Verdi- Fiorenzuola d’Arda – Piacenza
2003.
Arte Nativa Alternativa – S. Agostino – Piacenza
2004.
Palazzo Farnese - Piacenza
2006.
Fondazione Piacenza e Vigevano - Piacenza
2008.
“Olocausti”- Sala Alabardieri del Comune di Cremona
2009.
“Il Cerchio e la Shoah” – Reggia di Colorno - Parma
2010.
“Il Cerchio e la Shoah” – Baraccano - Bologna
2011.
“Il Cerchio e la Shoah” – Sala Santa Rita - Roma
2012. " Altre Sperimentazioni" - Galleria Metamorfosi - Reggio Emilia
Mostre
collettive
1997.
Hart Holland – Olanda
1997.
Star – Strasburg
1998.
Europ Art – Ginevra
1998.
Arco – Madrid
1999.
Kunstrai – Amsterdam
2001.
Mostra “Arte D’Autunno” – Roma
2001.
Biennale di Firenze
2001.
Biennale di Roma
2002.
Biennale di Roma
2003.
Biennale di Roma
2003.
Arte Nativa Alternativa – S. Agostino - Piacenza
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