Silvio Formichetti (1969) - Senza titolo

Artist: Silvio Formichetti
Nationality: Italian
Year of birth: 1969

Title of the work: Untitled
Year of manufacture: 2023
Support/technique: Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 24 x 30 x 2

Signature details: Signed in the bottom right corner with a marker.

Edition: Unique piece

Provenance: Private collection

Documentation: Certificate of authenticity included

Condition: Excellent overall condition; no imperfections.

Shipping: The artwork will be sent on a stretcher frame and securely packaged.

Silvio Formichetti is an Italian painter, among the leading exponents of Italian contemporary informal painting. He begins his artistic career with portraits of female nudes and Abruzzo landscapes, then evolves, from the 1990s, toward gestural abstraction and Informalism. Fundamental in his development is the influence of American Action Painting (in particular Jackson Pollock) and figures such as Afro Basaldella, Emilio Vedova, Gianni Dova and Hans Hartung. Formichetti is known for the energetic use of color, the intense painting gesture, and a visual language that expresses deep and dynamic moods.

Key events and highlights:

2003: Solo exhibition at the Palazzetto dei Nobili in L'Aquila; the 30th International Art Exhibition of Sulmona.

2007: Exhibitions at the National Museum of Abruzzo (L'Aquila) and the Francesco Gonzaga Diocesan Museum in Mantua.
The works of Silvio Formichetti are exhibited at the National Museum of Musical Instruments in Rome and at the Fourteenth-Century Refectory of the National Museum of the Palazzo di Venezia in Rome.

2008: Michetti Museum of Francavilla al Mare; XIII Biennale Stauròs of Sacred Art, Museum of San Gabriele (Isola del Gran Sasso).

2009–2010: Solo exhibition titled 'Labyrinths of the Soul' at the Guicciardini Palace space, Province of Milan.

2011: Solo exhibition "Dialogo con l'infinito" at the Chiostro del Bramante (Rome).
Solo show curated by Paolo Levi titled "Alphabets of the Soul" - Palazzo Oddo (Albenga).

2011: He was invited to the 54th Venice Biennale – Italian Pavilion curated by Vittorio Sgarbi.

2012: Solo exhibitions in Italy and Bulgaria: The Big Rip (Grottammare), Succisa Virescit (Cassino), Bulgare Visioni (Sofia - National Gallery of Modern Art) and Chromatic Architectures (Varna - Graffity Art Gallery).

2013: Solo exhibitions in Terni (Galleria Canovaccio), Padua (Galleria Civica – Energheia)
Brussels (European Parliament – The Paths of the Soul).

2014-2015: Exhibitions in Pescara ("Inferno. Allegories of the Conscience", Aurum) and Popoli ("Opere", Taverna Ducale).
Solo show in Berlin (InArt Werkkunst Gallery).

Explore the publication PRAESTIGIUM ITALIA II, the catalog that accompanies Luciano Benetton's international collection “IMAGO MUNDI Luciano Benetton Collection”.
He is one of the contemporary artists in the 44th Parallels collective in Albenga (GR).

2016-2017: Solo exhibitions “Evolution of Silence” (Umbertide) and “Omnia Mutantur” (Civic Museum of the Holy Annunciation, Sulmona); participations in the Sulmona Prize.

2018-2019: Exhibitions "The Silence That Screams" (Ascoli Piceno), "Volcanic" (Pergine Valsugana), "Informal Meeting" (Villa Brivio Cultural Center in Nova Milanese), "AB IMO PECTORE" (CristianoArtGallery, Samo Collection, Ars Interamna – Pignataro Interamna).
He is selected for the first edition of the exhibition 'I mille di Sgarbi' in Cervia (RA) at the Salt Warehouses.
He is awarded the Certilux Award for the art 'Made in Italy'.

In 2020 he participates in the 25th Premio Cimitile at the Paleochristian Basilica Complex of Cimitile, alongside the giants of Italian painting.
The solo exhibition 'IN' (Civic Gallery of San Donà di Piave).

2022: "The spacing of thought – from the Danish diary" (Grottammare).

Returns to exhibit at the Sacred Art Biennale of San Gabriele. A work titled “Prophets of Hope, Creators of Beauty,” the 16th edition of the most important European sacred art biennale.