From early childhood he showed a natural inclination for a creative handiness. His family environment (and particularly his father, a sculptor) reinforced his intentions and did not dissuade him from his ambitions. When adolescent, he joined the workshop of Baldo Barbarossa, a goldsmith in Genoa well-known for his traditional basis and high technique. Chimeri began as an errand-boy and, year after year, went through the arduos apprenticeship of the Goldsmith Art, specializing in the expertise according to the sound rules of the best handcraft. At the end of the long and hard training, enriched by various experiences, Chimeri set out to a real operational autonomy. His deep and pulsing aim, at new and original solutions, now a dead certainty, manifested itself particularly in the working known as 'la cera persa" that let him create jewellery in a fairly abstract sculpture shape, as a prolusion to a topic about Art as Art.

Those creations broke new ground toward larger and more challeging targets, and Chimeri had the strenght to put in larger and larger patterns, in the sculpture in the round, the primigenial and ultimate idea that had inspired him to create the "jewellery-sculpture", and pantographed his aesthetic emotion up to the point to obtain enormous, even monumental compositions, in a free performing idea of abstract Art in sculpture.

Chimeri since 1980 has a second centre at USCIO (Genoa) where he can perform the larger works and face the fascinating problem to carve the slate.

He never failed to look into the matters distressing handcraft, where he comes from and is still involved, filling executive positions in the Visual Art area.