GIORGIO SOREL
GIORGIO SOREL
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 designer.
In the mid-60s, Giorgio Sorel created the Georges Sorel brand, an internationally recognized company, in which handcrafted sports items were created and produced, with great attention to details and design, without neglecting their functionality.
(Francesco Moser with Georges Sorel accessories https://youtu.be/cLMELfTp3Cc)
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 of the collective exhibitions, we need to mention those in Netherland 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 also 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 historian Lucia Miodini of CSAC in Parma, with texts by Luciano Carini, called “SOREL-In the magic Circle of Grace and Nightmare”, published for the great anthological exhibition at Palazzo Farnese, Piacenza, and for the following exhibition (2006) at Cariparma e Vigevano Foundation. In 2007 Giorgio Sorel exhibited in Mantova 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 “The circle and the 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 in Rome.
Personal exhibitions – anthological
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
Collective exhibitions
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
