Galleria Cerri Arte
From the roots of our Mediterranean culture can be derived the principles of beauty and harmony and onto these can be today grafted, without contradiction, the utmost liberty in the use of shapes and colours typical of contemporary expression; thus an emotional path of renewing pleasure.
The Art Gallery Cerri, created as a collection of Bolognese art and specializing with the historic maestros, and concentration for the major part of its activity, on the promotion of the works by Maestro Claudio Nicoli, taking care of exhibitions in Italy and abroad and following the collecting and the purchasing of his works.
The Gallery today, through a selection of new exhibition of contemporary representation, remains anchored in its origins of an art that mixes culture, founded on man’s centrality and projected with a new mature force in the service of an ‘art’ that communicates emotion. A continual research for works with a strong and sincere identity with the constant need of harmony and beauty.
In 2003 Fonte Etrusca was created, as an art residence as well as the home of the owner and atelier for Maestro Nicoli. Situated in the Etruscan land where still tradition mixes with the ‘new’ and it is not by chance that it is situated in this tiny plot of Umbrian land, where the countryside remains as authentic as time immemorial. The residence is open to all kinds of initiatives with ‘art’ as the starting point.
For some years the Art Gallery Cerri has had a permanent seat in Montepulciano, an important Tuscan artistic-cultural centre frequented by an international public attentive and sensible to art. The new rooms of the small Gallery have become a meeting point for collectors of works of great importance.
Cicles and themes
Horses, Horses and Riders, Owls and Cats; Landscapes and Etruscan combs; Female and mythological figures; Warriors, Icarus and Masks. These are the themes of Claudio Nicoli
Focus and periods
There are three characteristic periods for Claudio Nicoli sculpture that coincide with the stages of his cultural formation.