FRANCO CROCCO - Italy -

CONTACTS: Studio: via campetto dei macellari 21 00049 Velletri (Rome)
Tel 06 7964663 – 06 9629503 Cell. 347 8536399 e-mail: croccoeffe@hotmail.it
www.francocrocco.com

Temporal paths

The first frost of autumn

Mixed media on canvas cm 60 x 80

Mixed media on plywood cm 92.5 x 126

Mixed media on plywood

diptych cm 125 x 125

Shocking pink

Mixed media on plywood cm 105 x 125

The poor Harlequin

Sacred & Profane (Artist's signature)

Mixed media on plywood 50 x 100 cm

Mixed technique on plywood cm 92 x 100

HIS BIOGRAPHY

Franco Crocco, painter and engraver, born in Rome in 1964, lives and works between Ciampino and Velletri (Rome). A son of art (his father Alfredo is a well-known painter), he has been active in the visual arts sector for over 25 years, and has accumulated a considerable wealth of artistic experience that has led him to change his way of living and conceiving art.

Graduated from the Istituto d’Arte of Ciampino in 1983 and from the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome in 1988, he was a student of Enzo Brunori and Duilio Rossoni. He was the Educational Director of the “San Giuseppe” Paritary Art High School in Grottaferrata (Rome) from 2000 to 2007, where he also taught figure drawing. He currently teaches Painting Disciplines at the State Art Institute of Rome III and Pomezia (Rome). He is also a teacher at the Schools of Arts and Crafts of the Municipality of Rome, where he taught Drawing and Painting at the “Ettore Rolli” School and currently, at the “School of Ornamental Arts”, Engraving Techniques.

After various figurative paths (certainly worth mentioning is the solo exhibition held in 2000 in Marino (Rome), in the halls of Palazzo Colonna, entitled “Homage to Giovanni Segantini”), his research is focused on the formal elaboration of color and the relationships that occur in visual perception through a visual representation that arouses emotion in the observer.
The use of humble materials, assembled with traditional ones, evokes visual suggestions that go beyond the boundaries of figuration. The surface is thus enriched with a tactile fascination that, through the roughness of the material, emerges triumphant with its own strength. As Mariano Apa writes (2007) “(...) The lumps and material agglomerates seem to expand in the calm of the marshy dilution of the brushstroke, which deliberately stumbles, is amazed, gets caught in the materials used.”
“In Franco Crocco’s latest production – writes Manlio Della Serra (2008) – the organization of the fields, the balance of voids and protrusions are just some of the elements that regulate the supply of very high expressive difficulties, and everything seems to refer to the personal formalization fixed in many years of study.”

The engraving work, after an intense figurative period, is currently developing an autonomous path of research and experimentation linked to contemporary themes full of formal suggestion.

In addition to Brunori, the models of this artistic renewal are the works of Afro and Burri.

CURRICULUM

Among the most significant exhibitions of recent years, we recall those at the Galleria Spazio Giacobbe (Milan, 1997), the Galleria Comunale Borghese di Mentana (Rome, 1997), the Galleria Comunale di Casarano (Lecce, 1997), the Roof Garden of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome (1998), the Galleria L’Agostiniana (1999), at the Sale del Bramante in Rome (2000), at the “L. Montanarini” Center in Genzano (Rome, 2001), the Scuderie Aldobrandini in Frascati (Rome, 2001 and 2004), at the Cloister of San Pietro in Reggio Emilia (2002), the Museo Civico di Arte Contemporanea in Albissola Marina (Savona, 2002), at Palazzo Miceli in S. Vincenzo la Costa (Cosenza, 2003), the Museo Civico di Marino (Rome, 2004), the d’AC – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea in Ciampino (Rome, 2005), at the Municipality of Pannarano (BN), the Circolo Artistico di Lido di Jesolo (VE), the Cittadella dei Musei in Cagliari, the Galleria Poliedro in Trieste (2006). In 2007, he exhibited his engravings at the municipality of Vigonza (Pd) and Nova Milanese (Mi). In February 2007, he organized a retrospective exhibition of his abstract works at the Sale dell’Antica Tipografia of the Abbey of Grottaferrata (Rome), entitled “The Control of the Unexpected”, with a critical essay by Mariano Apa. He is a member of the National Association of Italian Engravers of Vigonza (Pd). In 2008, he exhibited his works at the Galleria L’astrolabio in Rome and at the Museo Civico d’Arte Contemporanea Parisi Valle in Maccagno (Va).

He has also exhibited his works in France, in the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, in Lithuania, Portugal, and Austria. He has participated in countless national and international painting and engraving competitions in Italy.

Exhibition update 2008 – 2009:

2008
- Maccagno (VA) - Museo Civico Parisi Valle, “Acquisitions 2008” – Under the patronage of the Lombardy Region and the Province of Varese. Coordination by Associazione AdActa, curated by C. Rizzi. Catalogue at the exhibition.
- Oporto (Portugal) - Galleria Geraldes Da Silva, Contemporary Art Collective.
- Vienna - Galleria Am Roten Hof, “Made in Italy II” Award, curated by G. Klebacz.
- Agrigento - “Agrigento Arte 2008 – Signs of the Times”. Contemporary Art Fair, coordinated by Centro Studi Erato. Catalogue at the exhibition.
- Aprilia (LT) – Department of Culture, “Alfredo & Franco Crocco – Chromatic Variations – Between Naturalism and Abstractionism”. Sala Manzù, solo exhibition. Presentation by M. Della Serra.
- Guidonia Montecelio (RM) – Department of Culture, “Air, Wind, Flight: Ethereal Dimensions of Art”, curated by L. Rubini. Cloister of the former Convent of San Michele. Catalogue at the exhibition.
- Vigonza (PD) – Department of Culture “2008 Italian Graphic Art”, Castello dei Da Peraga, curated by the National Association of Italian Engravers of Vigonza (PD).
- Rome – Galleria “Il trittico”, “Italian Engravers”, curated by S. Fattibene.

2009

- Rome – Associazione Culturale Galleria Utopia, “Exhibition of Artists for the World March and Nonviolence”. Curated by F. Cordoba and D. Leoni.
- Frascati (RM) – Department of Culture – “T & T = A “, Scuderie Aldobrandini. Catalogue at the exhibition.

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