Francesco Grillo
Francesco Grillo
About me:
I’m Francesco Grillo. In 1999 I obtained my Graduation with honors at the Accademia of Belle Arti in Foggia – Italy. Particularly important and significant is the encounter with the great Italian masters of the ‘400 ; Bellini, Giorgione, followed by Tiziano and Tiepolo, allowed me to form my own painting technique and at the same time maintain a connection with the high tradition of my country, but with a more surreal, metaphysical and symbolist key. I joined several exhibitions in Italy, New York(“new art Showcase”, Limner Gallery), London and China.
“Walking on my path I try to put trampolines to let people jump to different frequencies and, in a thrill made of Honey pins, get a glimpse of eternity”.
The human sense
Francesco Grillo might be placed into a figurative context where metaphysical and surrealistic places bring our minds to a mental image. Consequently, his art aim at reaching the centrality of the image as a mean of communication and measure of the interior world. Grillo works on persistence of the memory by intensifying the research on faces and objects and estranging from the context in which they are located. In addition, they are surrounded by a silent aura which seems to create a status of suspension. His works represent a new personal research that looks towards Metaphysics and Surrealism, on the other hand they differentiate themselves for a lyric interest in object s and in meditation upon the Italian painting in the fifteenth century. Francesco Grillo’s characters, instead, put forward again a very deep message, a message about the humanity of art and beauty, which go over the daily of the “ugly” term, over the technology, over the digital icons of a cybernetic cold and anonymous space.
Education
Accademia di Belle Arti, Foggia, Italy
Frescoes technique stage organized by M.A.C.A.M., led by Silvano Gilardi in Maglione(To).
Awards
1995: Premio Andrea Pazienza, San Severo.
1996: Premio Andrea Pazienza , San Severo.
1997: IV Premio Maurizio Marchese, La cuba d’oro, Roma.
1998: Premio Andrea Pazienza, San Severo.
2000: Winner NewArt Shwcase, Limner Gallery, New York City, USA
Visiting Artist Lectures and Related Professional Activities
2003: Lecture, “Northern Illinois University”, Dekalb, Chicago, USA
2008: “VIII Week of Italian Culture”, Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2013: “Seekers”, 14 canvases attending “Stories written on the sand”, the new album of musician Salah addin Roberto Re David.
Exhibitions
2021:”Piccole grandi opere, galleria delle visioni, Piacenza, Italy
2020: “Art vs Apocalips”, Secret Art Gallery, London
“Ritrovarsi nelle Visioni”, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza
Mercante in fiera, Galleria delle Visioni, Parma, Italy
2019:”Realitè et Reve”, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza, Italy
“Summertime”, Galleria Forni, Bologna, Italy
“Ritratti e autoritratti”, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza, Italy
2018: “Sulla soglia della Libertà”, Palazzo Coccia, Cerignola, Italy
2017: ArteVicenza, Galleria delle Visioni. / “ArteCremona”, Galleria delle Visioni. / “Paesaggi”, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza. / “ArtePiacenza”, Galleria delle Visioni.
2016: “Costellazioni, 12 artisti, 12 segni”, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza. / “Tendente a Infinito”, chiesa di S. Cristoforo, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza. / “E se tornasse Diomede”, Museo Civico, Foggia. / “ArtePiacenza”, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza.
2015: “Preludio all’Alba”, Palazzo Ghizzoni Nasalli, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza. / “Visioni erotiche”, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza. / “CreativitySummerFestival”, Casa dell’editore, Covignano(RN). / “Tendente a Infinito”, chiesa di S. Cristoforo, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza. / “Capitanata Grand tour”, Palazzetto dell’Arte, Foggia. / “Il cibo, nutrimento per corpo e spirito”, Galleria delle Visioni, Piacenza. / Arte Cremona, Cremona.
2014: ArtePiacenza, Piacenza.
2013: “Human and nature. European Vision”, He Suifa Art Museum. Hangzhou, China. / “Simphony of Nature”, Shaoxing, China.
2012: “Home, my place in the world”, Galleria Pall Mall, London. / “Pesce d’Aprile”, Bluorg, Bari.
2011: “SlowArt”, ArtCore Contemporary Art, Bari. / “Homo Novus”, centro storico, Forlì. / “Across the Bridge”, Fiumano Art Gallery, London. / “Si ignorano i motivi del gesto”, Palazzo Conti, Locorotondo. / “Italian Contemporary Artists”, Italian Embassy, London.
2010: “Extending to Infinite”, Exopera, Cerignola. / “Terra e sale”, by Graziano Menolascina, Masseria Boezio, Ostuni.
2008: “Quadrato d’Arte”, remembering Umberto Boccioni, Libra Arte Contemporanea, Catania. / “Proiezioni”, Collezionando Gallery, Rome. / “Art’s Materials”, Istituto Portoghese of S. Antonio’s gallery, by Graziano Menolascina, Roma.
2007: “DiscaricArt”, Cappella Orsini, Rome. / “Fall”, Garden Groove, Roma. “Florilegium”, Cappella Orsini, Roma.
2006: “Fall”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Palazzo di Provincia, Foggia. / “Fall”, Palazzo Coccia, Cerignola.
2005: “Segnali bianchi nella notte”, STUDIO S -ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, Roma.
2004: “Preludio”, Mercadante Theater, Cerignola.
2002: “Estate 7”, Galleria Alpha Centauri, Parma. / Galleria dei Sogni, Lecce.
2001: “l perturbante”, Mercadante Theater, Cerignola. / “Segni dal silenzio”, National Museum, Manfredonia.
1998 “Art & Maggio”, contemporary art, Bari. / “Percorsi selvatici”, Selva di Fasano.
1997: “Giovani talenti” per la ABBA di Bari, Foggia, Lecce e Vieste. / “Mostra per il Giubileo”, S. Giovanni in Laterano, Roma.
- June 3, 2022
