Giuseppe Chiari (1926-2007) was a conceptual artist, protagonist of the Italian and international cultural scene in the second half of the twentieth century, experimenter and innovator of the language of music, visual art and performance. He invented the "Music of Action", based on a method of execution that placed, alongside the traditional instruments, random sound elements such as water, stones or dried leaves.
Heedless of the contamination between materials and techniques, he began with the first scores in which the signs of the notes or gestures to be performed took on the visual evidence of real autonomous images. He continued with collages that assembled musical scores, photographs and pictorial-gestural elements, such as signs and writings in clear characters (the characteristic "statements" to effect, drawn in marker or ink, such as this "quit classic music") to reach the musical instruments that become themselves the subject of collage or support other forms of expression.
In 1962 he joined Fluxus and was one of the leading Italian exponents of this movement of the international Neo-Avant-garde for which art was not conceived as a subjective fact, but as a "creative network", a flow of energy dialoguing, creating continuous relationships and exchanges, even with users. Equally significant was, in 1964, the adhesion to Group 70, which brought together painters, poets and musicians interested in experimenting with the interaction between word and image (concrete poetry and visual poetry).
