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18 - 26 OCTOBER, 2025
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Biography
Franca Pisani (Grosseto, 1956) is an Italian painter, sculptor and performer.
She was born in Grosseto into a family of artists straddling the Maremma and the magic of the Island of Elba, where she spent her childhood years. At the age of nine, encouraged by her precocious talent, she attended the studio of the sculptor and painter Alessio Sozzi, who taught her the secrets of every graphic technique, from fresco to oil, from pastel to watercolour to sculpture proper, based on the study of Etruscan techniques, the use of clays and earth colours. After moving to Florence, she attended the Liceo Artistico Sperimentale (Experimental Art School), where she embarked on an innovative path guided by the most important artists of the time (including Vinicio Berti, Renato Ranaldi and Giovanni Ragusa). After graduating from high school, she was chosen by Professor Colacicchi to be the studio assistant of Maestro Bruno Gambone and, at the same time, by sculptor Antonio Berti, a pupil of Libero Andreotti.
Franca, however, already showed an unconventional temperament and decided to deepen her studies by attending the two-year Architecture Faculty at the University of Florence, where she met Pierluigi Tazzi, a critic and curator of avant-garde exhibitions. She then moved to Bologna, enrolling in the Faculty of Arts D.A.M.S. (Distretto per le Arti, Musica e Spettacolo) directed by Umberto Eco, who also became professor of Semiotics. Encouraged by Eugenio Miccini, she immediately came into direct contact with Ketty La Rocca - a leading exponent of the Italian Visual Poetry movement and part of the international artistic avant-garde - who would mark her early years of research.
Active in the dynamics of the struggle for the condition of women in society, Franca Pisani shared with the brilliant Ligurian perfomer a conceptual approach to artistic intervention. At the same time, she studied the Arte Povera movement and closely followed the artistic experience of Eugenio Miccini, founder of the "Visual Poetry" movement. The convictions matured and borrowed from Visual Poetry and the particular intensity of the research in progress convinced the artist to a sudden and continuous evolution, driven by an experimental urgency that still persists today.
The end of the century and the first years of the new millennium are illuminating: the sign research that distinguishes Franca Pisani's production is gaining ground. This period of new and fertile production is marked by numerous collaborations with museums, public institutions and private galleries that fully embrace the artist's research path, within a research dimension that presents itself in all its innovative potential on both the national and international scene.
https://www.francapisani.com/
She was born in Grosseto into a family of artists straddling the Maremma and the magic of the Island of Elba, where she spent her childhood years. At the age of nine, encouraged by her precocious talent, she attended the studio of the sculptor and painter Alessio Sozzi, who taught her the secrets of every graphic technique, from fresco to oil, from pastel to watercolour to sculpture proper, based on the study of Etruscan techniques, the use of clays and earth colours. After moving to Florence, she attended the Liceo Artistico Sperimentale (Experimental Art School), where she embarked on an innovative path guided by the most important artists of the time (including Vinicio Berti, Renato Ranaldi and Giovanni Ragusa). After graduating from high school, she was chosen by Professor Colacicchi to be the studio assistant of Maestro Bruno Gambone and, at the same time, by sculptor Antonio Berti, a pupil of Libero Andreotti.
Franca, however, already showed an unconventional temperament and decided to deepen her studies by attending the two-year Architecture Faculty at the University of Florence, where she met Pierluigi Tazzi, a critic and curator of avant-garde exhibitions. She then moved to Bologna, enrolling in the Faculty of Arts D.A.M.S. (Distretto per le Arti, Musica e Spettacolo) directed by Umberto Eco, who also became professor of Semiotics. Encouraged by Eugenio Miccini, she immediately came into direct contact with Ketty La Rocca - a leading exponent of the Italian Visual Poetry movement and part of the international artistic avant-garde - who would mark her early years of research.
Active in the dynamics of the struggle for the condition of women in society, Franca Pisani shared with the brilliant Ligurian perfomer a conceptual approach to artistic intervention. At the same time, she studied the Arte Povera movement and closely followed the artistic experience of Eugenio Miccini, founder of the "Visual Poetry" movement. The convictions matured and borrowed from Visual Poetry and the particular intensity of the research in progress convinced the artist to a sudden and continuous evolution, driven by an experimental urgency that still persists today.
The end of the century and the first years of the new millennium are illuminating: the sign research that distinguishes Franca Pisani's production is gaining ground. This period of new and fertile production is marked by numerous collaborations with museums, public institutions and private galleries that fully embrace the artist's research path, within a research dimension that presents itself in all its innovative potential on both the national and international scene.
https://www.francapisani.com/
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