Born 1973 in Fano, Italy.
Lives and works in Pesaro and Milan.
Awards |
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| 2009 | ACACIA Prize for Contemporary Art, Italy |
Solo Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 2016 | Transcript, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems |
| 2015 | Francesco Gennari, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin |
| Francesco Gennari, FRAC Corse, Corte | |
| 2014 | Francesco Gennari, Museo Marino Marini, Florence |
| 2012 | Francesco Gennari, Castello di Fosdinovo, Fosdinovo |
| 2009 | Picture this! Francesco Gennari, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle |
| 2008 | Francesco Gennari, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne Métropole, Saint-Etienne |
Group Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 2018 | Selection of works from the NMNM collection, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco |
| 2017 | Strange Days, Le Plateau/FRAC Île-de-France, Paris |
| 2016 | Ennesima. Una mostra di sette mostre sull’arte italiana, Triennale di Milano, Milan |
| Otium #1 and Kata Tjuta, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne | |
| Nomadisme, FRAC Corse, Corte | |
| 2015 | Il museo ideale: Capolavori dai musei italiani del XX secolo e dalla collezione Acacia, Museo del Novecento, Milan |
| 2014 | Résonance(s), Maison Particulière, Brussels |
| 2013 | Paint It Black, Le Plateau / FRAC Île-de-France, Paris |
| 2011 | Surreal Versus Surrealism in Contemporary Art, IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia |
| Arte essenziale, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt | |
| 2010 | Die Natur der Kunst, Kunstmuseum Winterthur |
| 2009 | Italics. Arte italiana tra tradizione e rivoluzione 1968–2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL |
| Italics. Arte italiana tra tradizione e rivoluzione 1968–2008, Palazzo Grassi, Venice | |
| Manifesta 7, Trentino Alto Adige | |
Francesco Gennari’s artistic practice is based on minimalist formal characteristics and a metaphysical approach. Characterized by its conceptual consistency, Gennari’s work draws from a cosmology of divergent mediums (Murano glass, bronze, marble, gin, mint syrup), selected not for their outward appearance but for their inherent specificities. Their apparent matter-of-fact aspect contrasts with the artist’s attachment to the ideas of sensibility and poetry that lay behind the experience of being in this world. The primary subject of Gennari’s work is the invisible—what one is not able to see and that is made visible by the artist—which he materializes into organic and material objects.
