For many years Giovanni Frangi's pictorial work has been taking place in the name of a progressive loss of boundaries, the dividing line between languages and different techniques (he uses painting, drawing, sculpture and installation), between the figurative and abstraction, between the representation of nature and an idea of an interior landscape.
Giovanni Frangi
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Nature is a recurring theme in Frangi's work: since its inception the artist's path has concentrated on investigating the natural world in all its aspects: woods, seas, rivers and countryside. Although the starting point is always apparently realistic, an expressionist style and a tendency towards informal painting lead him to recreate, with ever - changing means, a transfigured, imaginary reality, recreated with an unmistakable brushstroke of great expressive power. He always seems to move between an approach to natural data and in parallel to his continuous journey towards fantastic territories.
Giovanni Frangi was born in 1959 in Milan, where he still lives and works. He has collaborated with numerous foundations and museums in Italy and abroad including: Sala del Cenacolo, Montecitorio, Rome; Palazzo delle Stelline, Milan; Villa Panza, Varese; the Modern Art Gallery, Udine; the Diocesan Museum, Milan; MART, Rovereto; the National Museum of San Matteo, Pisa; the MAXXI Museum, Rome and the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.