The affection for Claudio Olivieri in the words of Dario Pecoraro
The Milanese artist Dario Pecoraro told about Artribune when he first met Claudio Olivieri, his teacher at NABA.
Pecoraro was then just a boy and remembers the construction of what would soon become an artistic space of reference Milan: the New Academy of Fine Arts.
It tells how Olivieri had personally designed the atelier, with a loft with yellow pillars and a series of wooden partition walls, which separated the boxes of students. The thing that Pecoraro remembers with more emotion, however, is the phrase that Olivieri used to say, as a sort of personal mantra: “Still we are looking for references, forms, wrecks, holds, still we pretend to verify through the guarantee of recognizing. But we should have understood that the invisible doubles the visible and thanks to the visible we are blind.”
This phrase is the perfect representation of much of the artistic work of Claudio Olivieri, who through light and colors has always tried to see beyond things.
