Corneli was born in Florence in 1958 and lives and works in Florence and in Umbria. After his graduation from "Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze" in 1980, he studied Semiotics at "Instituto DAMS", where he began exploring his curiosity towards Shadow & Light and their borderlines.

From the very beginning of his artistic career, extending the essential meaning of "Confine" (border) between recognizing and unrecognizing, abstraction and concreteness, simplicity and complication, fullness and emptiness, and so fourth has been the pivotal platform on which to develop his unique repetoire of expressions.

His curiosity towards the theme has gained an accelerating momentum in his original way for over the past 25 years. When a spectator faces his artworks, he/she would initially be attracted to its aesthetic composition of Light & Shadow and becomes puzzled by the way he deploys them even when the spectator approaches to the wall.

Having had his works included in the GORI Collection in 1987 and again in 1997, the foundation of his aesthetic impulse centres the field of tension for the attainment of consciousness in the whole range of hypotheses between error and knowledge, “under tension”. This leads to a realisation that seeing, trying, experimenting, recognizing and finally understanding, becomes a conscious process as well as an adventure of the intellect.

The first large-scale solar installation "Augenblick" was realised in Köln, Germany when he lived and worked there (1993-1998).

His career in Japan became more progressive soon after his first visit to the country for an exhibition at Mssohkan, capturing both media and corporate interests.

• "Study for Light, Study for Shadow" Mssohkan, Kobe 2000
• "Dreamers Across Japan" Contemporary Art Institute (CAI), Sapporo, 2001
• "Bagliori a Kobe" permanent installation in Kobe, organized by Nikkei, curated by Mssohkan, 2001
• "Vedo e Non Vedo" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum for Photography, 2001
• Cooperation to NHK Education   (public TV broadcasting) for infants TV program, 2002
• Cooperation to Fukuinkan   (Publisher for infants books), 2003
• “Est! Est!! Est!!!” Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, 2003-2004
• Shadow  Object "Satio Danzante" The Italian Pav. in Aichi Expo 2005
• "Elogio dell'Ombra--Praise of Shadow" Mssohkan, Kobe 2007
• Kobe Light Project -Solar Installation "Duet", Kobe

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