About artist
Giuseppe Quartieri, aka Donatien was born in Lodi in 1963 and currently lives in San Mauro Mare.
Art has always played a central role in the life of the aforementioned painter so much so that, since his youth, he had the opportunity to attend various ateliers of the most different creative - as well as the first modern and contemporary art galleries of Milan. Vassily Kandinsky, Johannes Itten and Nicolas De Staël soon became his artistic references together with Michel de Montaigne and the Marquis de Sade - thanks to them, he became passionate about the research on color and the connections it has with the unconscious. And precisely from the latter, that is, from Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade, he took inspiration for his stage name because - said the Lombard - "All the concepts of psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung could be born and build on the studies carried out on the lord of Sauman, that is to say, because he in his writings has managed to empty our unconscious and to carry out a global and general assessment from the point of view of both artistic and psychological being (...)". So in 1995, Joseph held a workshop for a week at the Stephnu Swerk d'Isny-Monaco rehabilitation center where the results of his not yet fully completed research called Chromologos are applied to participants. In this period, the first series of Chromologos papers originates, small works of art to accompany the discovery of symbols and meanings outside the control of human consciousness. It will be only in 2015 that the homonymous volume is edited, an artistic-philosophical treatise on the language of color titled, very pertinent with the investigations conducted, "Chromologos. Dialogues with the unconscious" for the types of La Tana del Bianconiglio. In 2000 Quartieri published a treatise of artistic-spiritual reflections (in English, French and Italian) entitled "The Seven Symbols of Life" and in the following years he devoted himself more intensely to painting exhibitions, exhibiting in various salons for Personals and Collectives between Paris, Rome, Milan, Rimini, Heidelberg, Bremen, Lyon, Chartres. Also because of this, in 2005 he became a member of the Académie de la Couleur in Bordeaux and participated in conferences and seminars on color. In 2006 he also became a member of the International Society of Psychopathology of Expression in Paris. In 2018, his umpteenth book "Sognetto. Magic Tale" and the following year the fable illustrated by infants "The colored dots of the rainbow", both with the Academy Chromologos he founded and designed especially to give courses to children in the biblioludo library of today's town of residence. The focus will be on the sensory. There, in Santo Mauro Mare, he had already lived from 1995 to 2000 and finally returned there after fifteen years spent in France, a stay motivated by the much cited personal research on color and especially on the change of colors in twenty-four hours. Investigations and tests, those of Donatien, possible through the observation of the stained glass windows of Gothic cathedrals at various times of the day and evening. Analyses that led him to affirm that color has its own language and that the straight line should not exist in art because it does not exist in the universe. It is no coincidence that many of his works have a circular shape: an example of this is the Tonde "il tempo che scorre", a continuation of the dear theme of the continuous passing of moments although nothing - as the convinced Giuseppe Quartieri maintains - is destroyed, but everything is transformed like the phoenix which is a clear reference to existence. Here, then, is how temporal coordinates are a fundamental key to understanding the inspiration of the master who considers the earthly sojourn an uninterrupted process of death and rebirth, which he documents by resurrecting from the ashes of the artist's days simple letters and dates, with and on colors that convey joy and serenity.