Fernando De Filippi is a multifaceted artist: his research spans all languages, from painting, photography, video, performance, to installation and monumental sculpture. In his early phase he used informal painting, but from the late sixties the artist perceived the suggestion of political and social themes, entering the "revolutionary" debate of 1968 through painting and performance.
Fernando De Filippi
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From the eighties onwards the enigmatic silences of a Mediterranean cradle of myth emerge, the enigmas of improbable cities, of simulated temples and symbolic constellations, but also alchemical and cerebral visions. Starting in the 2000s, the artist investigated issues related to myth and classical architecture, in which the shapes of trees - painted on canvas or drawn with inks on large sheets of rice paper - become architecture. And it is in the incessant search for the construction of form, through the repetition of thousands of small graphic signs, that what for De Filippi is also a reflection on the profound meaning of drawing and painting.
Fernando De Filippi was born in Lecce in 1940. He lived in Paris and then in Milan, where he lives and works. He was director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera (1991-2009), the Academy of Verona from 2009 to 2011 and had a leading role in artistic politics in Italy. The list of exhibitions in Italy and abroad is long. He has participated in five editions of the Venice Biennial, four editions of the Rome Quadriennial and the Milan Triennial in 1981. He has also exhibited, amongst others, in numerous public museums in Italy and abroad: Palazzo Reale in Milan, Fondazione Mudima of Milan, Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Turin, the Hayward Gallery in London, Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome and the Museum of Modern Art in San Paolo and Rio de Janeiro.