Filippo Francocci
‘I am influenced by many painters past and present, although I believe my main inspiration to be the structures in nature. I work with oils on recycled wood and canvas. When painting, I feel as if I am communicating with the materials. By observing and working with the texture and grain of the wood it is as though I am tapping into its history and transforming the material so that it has a new purpose and its voyage through time is prolonged. The abstract forms which emerge in my paintings might evoke something figurative depending on the point of view of the observer. I seek to explore this space of potentiality in my paintings where they hover between abstraction and figuration.’
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Filippo Francocci was born in 1974 in Città di Castello, Italy. When he was two years of age his family moved to South Africa where he grew up and obtained a BA in Fine Arts from Wits University in Johannesburg. On graduation he was awarded a prize for Fine Arts student who made the most advancement as an undergraduate. After his studies he painted for backdrop and interior decorating companies in South Africa, London and Rome. He moved to Europe in 1999 where he continued painting and working as a teacher. He has participated in several solo and group exhibitions over the years. Filippo is also a musician and song writer. At the moment he lives and works on the Costa Brava in Spain.
Curriculum Vitae
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Education
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1998 BA Fine Art, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Prizes/Awards
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2005 - “Cultural Web.it” art competition winner, Museo Nazionale delle Arti e tradizioni Popolari, Rome, Italy
1998 - "Standard Bank Fine Arts Prize" Award presented for the Fine Arts student who made the most advancement as an undergraduate, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2012 Art@school, British Institutes Pomezia, Rome, Italy
2008 Inheritance, Festival dei due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy2004-2005 Filippo Francocci, Borni management srl, Rome, Italy 1997 Filippo Francocci, Festival dei due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
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2021 Time and tide, Art gallery 118, Virtual exhibition
2021 Discarded: A Recycle Art Exhibit, Virtual exhibition by the Ikouii Creative, Atlanta, US
2020 Covid_2020 Virtual Gallery , Online Exhibition by 212 productions, UK
2016 Visionari Vol. 2, PunkRazio, Rome, Italy

2015 Visionari, PunkRazio, Rome, Italy
2014 Stoned Zombies, Palarockness, Genzano, Rome, Italy
2008 Fleurs Opere d’amore, 2nd edition, Palazzo del Comune, Spoleto, Italy

2006 Premio OpenArt 2006, Sale del Bramante, Piazza del Popolo, Rome, Italy

2005 I colori del Lazio, Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari, Rome, Italy
2004 L’arte nell’Uovo di Pasqua, Fendi Gallery, Rome, Italy

2004 4 Trofeo ACCA in...Arte, Four Point Hotel Sheraton, Rome, Italy

1999 Student Exhibition, Gertrude Posel Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1998 Martienessen Prize Exhibition, Gasworks Gallery, Newtown, Johannesburg, South
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Publications
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2008 “Fleurs Opere d’amore”, Studio A’87 Franco Troiani, Spoleto, Italy

2006 “Annuario D’Arte Moderna 2006”, ACCA in...Arte Editrice S.r.l, Rome, Italy
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Collections
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Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari, Rome, Italy Private collections
