Artist: Francesco Gennari
Exhibition title: Vorrei essere me stesso, ma solo alla luce del Sole
Venue: Antoine Levi, Paris, France
Date: September 23 – November 12, 2016
Photography: Claire Dorn, all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Antoine Levi
I was in Paris, under a concrete look alike sky, a black line passing through my mood, I was drawing… After a while the sky opened up and became azure, my temper suddenly changed, I was feeling myself, but immediately after the sun was starting to fade and the sky turned into purplish pink…
Vorrei essere me stesso, ma solo alla luce del Sole is Francesco Gennari’ second solo exhibition at Antoine Levi, Paris.
Francesco Gennari (Fano, 1973) lives and works between Milan and Pesaro. He has exhibited widely in institutions and galleries in Italy and abroad. Notably, recent solo exhibitions include Transcript, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, 2016; FRAC Corse, Corte, 2015; GAM Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Turin, 2015; Museo Marino Marini, Florence, 2014.
His works have also been included in signi ficant group shows, including Ennesima. Una mostra di sette mostre sull’arte italiana, Triennale di Milano, 2015; Otium #1: Kata Tjuta, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, 2015; Un Museo Ideale. Ospiti d’eccezione nelle collezioni del Novecento. Dal Futurismo al Contemporaneo, Museo del Novecento, Milan, 2015; SHIFT, Antoine Levi, Paris, 2014.
Francesco Gennari, Autoritratto in una malinconica giornata autunnale (a Parigi), 2016, Licorice Menozzi De Rosa 1836, concrete, gin, wood, Cm. Ø 100 x 6,5
Francesco Gennari, Autoritratto in una malinconica giornata autunnale (a Parigi), 2016, Licorice Menozzi De Rosa 1836, concrete, gin, wood, Cm. Ø 100 x 6,5
Francesco Gennari, Autoritratto in una malinconica giornata autunnale (a Parigi), 2016, Licorice Menozzi De Rosa 1836, concrete, gin, wood, Cm. Ø 100 x 6,5
Francesco Gennari, Vorrei essere me stesso, ma solo alla luce del Sole, 2014, Alessandrite Murano glass, sun light, neon light, halogen light, etc., Cm. 33 x 19,7 x 14,5
Francesco Gennari, Vorrei essere me stesso, ma solo alla luce del Sole, 2014, Alessandrite Murano glass, sun light, neon light, halogen light, etc., Cm. 33 x 19,7 x 14,5
Francesco Gennari, Vorrei essere me stesso, ma solo alla luce del Sole, 2014, Alessandrite Murano glass, sun light, neon light, halogen light, etc., Cm. 33 x 19,7 x 14,5
Francesco Gennari, Vorrei essere me stesso, ma solo alla luce del Sole, 2014, Alessandrite Murano glass, sun light, neon light, halogen light, etc., Cm. 33 x 19,7 x 14,5
Francesco Gennari, La forma del cielo nella mia casa, 2016, Genuine bronze, Cm. 13 x 16 x 1,6
Francesco Gennari, La forma del cielo nella mia casa, 2016, Genuine bronze, Cm. 13 x 16 x 1,6