Franco Franceschi
The Italian Cultural Institute is very pleased to collaborate with Bangor Carnegie Library on this exhibition by Franco Franceschi.
Following the opening of the Ruspoli Berlingheri Farm in Lilliano, in the area where the images were created and shot, the exhibition, The Seasons in Chiantishire successfully toured in France, Grenoble and Lille and in Slovenia, Lubjana and Izòla.
The research includes 65–70 images, showing the Siena countryside photographed in different seasons in the course of eight years when the artist stayed in Castellina in Chianti. It was there that he focused not just on the spectacularity of the whole, but on the sublime essence of details, by searching for those forms and colors that best characterize the landscape.
The images are extraordinary, clearly inspired by the pictorial and enriched by an evident choice that recalls the Metaphysical. A monochromatic, authentic Chiantishire emerges. It is neither melancholic, nor exalted by exaggerated colors. It is a Chianti that has been lived in more than visited.
The Bangor exhibition entails 50 images selected from the collection and presented here in a 40×60 format.
For more information please refer to: http://tinyurl.com/kwm8toy or http://www.francofranceschi.it/
Free entrance