Andrea
Facco

Andrea Facco do not belong to that generation of post-conceptual artists which produces lazy imitations of an already dead painting. Often, his works are demonstrations of something whose medial reality is not easy to recognize and understand. He is interested in letting the observer inside the painting, in a comparison between micro and macro-structures; he is interested in the interweaving of different levels of reproduction: on the one hand the painted reality crosses with visual, painted and photographic worlds, which we can find the reality; on the other hand he dissects the surface of the painting challenging our abilities of perception up to transform our eye in a precision microscope. In this way he invites us to overthink our perceptive habits. The coloured material in the most authentic ontological meaning and the leftovers remaining in the studio, are for him, and for us, experiences connected not only to the senses but also objects linked to the thoughts, to the extent that recall the process of realization of the painting.

Facco is not far from Paolini for the interest in the construction of the image, even if his it is definitely more sensual and 'materialistic'. As for Paolini, the studio and the tools are for Facco objects of thought, starting points for a reflection on art. Nevertheless, Facco's subtle intellectual game focuses on different artists, compared to the ones Paolini refers to. Facco is strongly connected to modernity: thanks to the 'fake' Morandi made with colours residue, the famous chair, Picasso's painting tools, colour traces left on the floor by Jackson Pollock and, last but not least, Van Gogh's self-portrait, who himself has recently redid. Reality is always perceived, in this we can recognize the relevance of the work he has produced so far. The illusionist strategies are unveiled by an exercise that sharpens our senses. The painter Andrea Facco always introduces us to something that challenges our perceptive abilities. At the same time he make us reflect on perceptive habits and on nowadays role of painting.
 

Exhibitions

Among the main solo shows we remember: 2019, ULTIMO ATTO, Galleria Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano (I); 2018, D’Aprés Filippo De Pisis – GLI EVENTI DEL MINUTO, Il Chiostro arte contemporanea, Saronno (I); 2015, Ignoto, One evening pop-up exhibition, Galleria Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano (I); 2014, Lo strano caso di Joan Mitchell, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Museo d’arte contemporanea, Lissone (I); 2013, Il Doppio del Gioco, curated by Peter Weiermair, Galleria Goethe Galerie, Bolzano (I); 2012, Bonjour Monsieur F.- viatico pittorico, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, OTTO GALLERY, Bologna (I); 2010, Apparenti Circostanze, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Galleria Biagiotti, Florence (I); Diario di Pittura, with Matia Chincarini, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Galleria Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Firenze (I); HAPPY HOUR, with Marco Di Giovanni, Kunstverein Heppenheim (D); 2008, Le cose che pensano, curated by Laura Barreca, Galleria Biagiotti, Florence (I); Waiting for Beijing, curated by Luca Beatrice, Galleria Boxart, Verona (I); 2007, One World One Dream, work(s)-in-progress exhibition, NY, Arts Beijing- Space/Project Room, Beijing (RC); 2006, Escodentro, text curated by Luigi Fassi, Galleria Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence (I); 2005, Room with a view, curated by Lynn Gumpert, Grey Art Gallery, New York City (USA); 1998, Pelle-universo, curated by Moreno Danzi, Galleria RED ZONE, Verona (I).
 
He has also taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including: 2022, Ossimori, Rocca Di Umbertide – Centro Per L’arte Contemporanea, Umbertide (Perugia) and Kromya Art Gallery, Verona (I); La montagna. Linguaggi, immagini e tempo dall’Ottocento ai giorni nostri, Il Chiostro Arte Contemporanea, Saronno (I); 2021, 141 - Un secolo di disegno in Italia, Fondazione del Monte di Bologna and Ravenna (I); 2019, PASSIONE. 12 progetti per l’arte italiana, Fondazione VAF, MART, Rovereto (I); 2018, ANIMALI METALLICI, Casa d’Arte Fortunato Depero, MART, Rovereto (I); Art-in-Studio / meet the artists, curated by URBS PICTA, Verona (I); 2017, MINIMA SILLOGE, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Museo d’arte contemporanea, Lissone (I); CARTA CANTA, Il Chiostro arte contemporanea, Saronno (I); Postcarts pop-up shop, curated by My Home Gallery, Verona (I); 2016, 2x10, Dieci artisti per vent'anni di Boxart, Verona (I); Kaleidoscope, Saronno (I); 2015, Convivium, Galleria Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano (I); 2014, La guerra che verrà non è la prima, MART Museo d’Arte contemporanea, Rovereto (I); Muse inquietanti, Galleria Goethe Galerie, Bolzano (I); IL COLLASSO DELL’ENTROPIA/ZWEI, Museo d’arte contemporanea, Lissone (I); Imago Mundi, of Luciano Beneton, Collezione Fondazione Beneton, Treviso (I); Schermi delle mie brame, La Triennale di Milano and Fondazione 107, Torino (I); 2013, Andata e ricordo. Souvenir de voyage, MART, Rovereto (I); Videoart Yearbook, curated by Renato Barilli, FaMa Gallery, Bologna (I); (P)Arerga & (P)Arlipomena Della (P)Pittura, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, BonelliLAB, Mantova (I); Antologia di un progetto, Galleria Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence (I); 2012, Italian Genius Now Brasil, curated by Marco Bazzini, produced by Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre (BR); Al di là della pittura, curated by Angela Madesani, Il Chiostro arte contemporanea, Saronno (I); BO-Hème, by Luigi Mastrangelo, curated by Alice Rubbini and Franck Pallotta H2O AtrSpace, Bologna (I); 2011, {to} Puzzle, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, OTTO GALLERY, Bologna (I); Percorsi riscoperti dell’arte italiana nella VAF- Stiftung 1947-2010, curated by Gabriella Belli and Daniela Ferrari MART, Rovereto (I); La pierre de la folie, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, “Dolomiti contemporanee”, Sass Muss – Sospirolo, Belluno (I); Prospero’s Films, Galleria d’Arte Mod. and Cont., Repubblica di San Marino (RSM); L’angolo obliquo, curated by  Alberto Zanchetta and Flavia Fiocchi Galleria EFFEARTE, Milano (I); 2010, 11° Premio Cairo, curated by Luca Beatrice, Palazzo della Permanente, Milano (I); Il Mondo in presenza di cose, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Spazio Culturale Combo, Perugina (I);  Round Robin: Girone all’italiana – round #3, Galleria Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence (I); Scherz, Satire, Ironie und tiefere Bedeutung, curated by Peter Weiermair, Kunstverein Augsburg (D); Round Robin: Girone all’italiana – Player Playing, Galleria Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence (I); 2009, Nella Luce di Morandi / Im Licht von Morandi, curated by Peter Weiermair, Galleria Goethe Galerie, Bolzano (I); MERCHANDISE, curated by Roberto Borghi, Il Chiostro arte contemporanea, Saronno (I); Shooting Martinetti. Le parole del Futurismo, curated by Debora Ercoli and Flavia Fiocchi, Galleria Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence (I); Italian Genius Now. Back to Rome, curated by Marco Bazzini, produced by Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Museo MACRO FUTURE, Rome (I); 2008, Tina B. The Prague Contemporary Art Festival 2008, Billoboard Text Art, Galleria Vernon, Prague (CZ); Italian Genius Now, a cura di Marco Bazzini, produced by Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Korean Design Center di Seul, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Tokyo, al Xue Xue Institute at Tapei, and at  Travancore Place di New Delhi (IN); Premio Agenore Fabbri, curated by Fondazione VAF in collaboration with Mart, Stadtgalerie, Kiel and Kunstlerhaus, Graz (A); The word is yours, curated by Margherita Salmaso and Chiara Zizioli, Fabbrica Borroni, Bollate, Milan (I); Folded, Glued & Printed, Transition: Curators Edition, curated by Steven Paige, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance (UK); Board, Festival Videoarte II° edition, curated by Valeria Grimaldi, Castello Svevo, Termoli, Campobasso (I); 2007, Premio Agenore Fabbri, curated by Fondazione VAF in collaboration with Mart, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan (I); Small is Beautiful, curated by Peter Weiermair, text by Bettina Schmitt, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-UO (D); Italian Genius Now, curated by Marco Bazzini, produced by Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi (Vietnam) and White House, Singapore White lab, curated by  Giulia Allegri, agenzia04, Bologna (I); Turn love to video, of Christian Rainer, curated by  Marcello Carriero, Venice Videoart Fair, Venice/San Servolo (I); The true mEn show, curated by Chiara Pilati, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Castel San Pietro Terme, Bologna (I); Ghost Trax, curated by N!03 microgallery, Pad – Pay and Display, Verona (I); 2006, Quaranta per Quaranta, curated by Sebastiano Zanetti, Pad – Pay and Display, Verona (I); Ghost Trax, curated by K. Andersen, M. Mariano, C. Rainer, N!03 microgallery, Milan (I); 2005, Bologna Contemporanea, curated by Peter Weiermair, GAM, Bologna (I); Stepping Ahead, Galleria Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence (I); Quotidiana05, curated by S. Schiavon, V. Baradel and  G. Bartorelli, Museo Civico al Santo, Padova (I); Aural sculpture[s] I, II, III, curated by Koma’ Gallery, Sanremo Pollino Music Festival Amnesiac Art Home Gallery, Potenza (I); Otto : 3, curated by Walter Guadagnini, Otto Gallery, Bologna (I); 2004, Europa in venti giorni, curated by Luigi Fassi, Galleria Cesare Manzo, Pescara (I); Small treasures, Galleria Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence (I); Me without you, curated by S. Becagli and F. Mascagni, Galleria Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence (I).

Biography

(Verona, 1973)

After attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and graduating with Concetto Pozzati in 2000, he was invited in 2005 by Peter Weiermair, the then Director of G.A.M. (Galleria d’Arte Maggiore) in Bologna, to participate in the exhibition Bologna Contemporanea, an exhibition about the last thirty years of painting in Bologna, as he is considered one of the most promising young painters on the international scene. In the same year he exhibited Room with a View in New York at the Grey Art Gallery - New York University Museum, the following year Escodentro at the Galleria Biagiotti Progetto Arte in Florence; in 2008 Le cose che pensano, in the same gallery, and as the crowning achievement of a long stay in China in the district of Chaoyang, he inaugurated the exhibition Waiting for Beijing, curated by Luca Beatrice, at the Galleria Box Art in Verona. His work focuses on Painting as an object to analyse: the subject is not only the image represented but also the mode of representation. Dexterously manoeuvring around the images that surround us daily, he creates heterogeneous works adopting and adapting the medium of painting according to his intellectual intentions. Among his most recent solo exhibitions we should mention: Il Doppio del Gioco, curated by Peter Weiermair, Galleria Goethe, Bolzano (2013); Lo strano caso di Joan Mitchell, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone (MB) (2014) and Ignoto, curated by Daniela Ferrari, Galleria Alessandro Casciaro and Centro Culturale Trevi, Bolzano (2015). He has exhibited in Prague (Czech Republic), Kiel (Germany), Graz (Austria), Beijing (China), Singapore, Hanoi (Vietnam), Seoul (Korea), Tokyo (Japan), New Delhi (India), Porto Alegre (Brazil), and in Italy at the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art in Prato, at the MACRO in Rome, at the Fondazione Stelline in Milan, at the Museo della Permanente in Milan, at the MART in Rovereto, at the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice and at the OTTO Gallery in Bologna. His works are collected by the VAF Foundation of Frankfurt (Germany). In 2018 he was awarded the Aldo Tavella International Prize. In 2019 he was present at the MART in Rovereto in the exhibition Passion, 12 Italian Art Projects, in the section “MATERIA”, with his work The floor of J. Pollock’s studio.