Silvio Formichetti (1969) - Senza titolo

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

Title of the work: Untitled
Year of realization: 2025
Support/technique: Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 29.5 x 40

Signature details: Signed in the lower right corner with a marker

Edition: Unique piece

Provenance: Private collection

Documentation: Certificate of authenticity included

Conditions: Excellent overall condition; no imperfections

Shipping: The work will be shipped on its stretcher and securely packaged.

Silvio Formichetti is an Italian painter, one of the leading figures of contemporary Italian informal painting. He began his artistic career with portraits of female nudes and Abruzzo landscapes, then evolved, from the 1990s, toward gestural abstraction and informality. A fundamental influence on his development is American Action Painting (particularly Jackson Pollock) and figures such as Afro Basaldella, Emilio Vedova, Gianni Dova, and Hans Hartung. Formichetti is known for his energetic use of color, intense painterly gesture, and a visual language that expresses deep and dynamic moods.

Major events and exhibitions:

2003: Solo show at the Palazzetto dei Nobili, L’Aquila; XXX International Art Exhibition of Sulmona.

2007: Exhibitions at the National Museum of Abruzzo (L’Aquila) and the Francesco Gonzaga Diocesan Museum in Mantua. Formichetti’s works have been exhibited at the National Museum of Musical Instruments in Rome and at the 15th-Century Refectorory of the National Museum of the Palazzo di Venezia in Rome.

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

2009-2010: Solo show titled “Labyrinths of the Soul” at the Palazzo Guicciardini space in Milan Province.

2011: Solo show “Dialogue with the Infinite” at the Bramante Cloister (Rome).
Solo show curated by Paolo Levi titled “Alphabets of the Soul” – Palazzo Oddo (Albenga).

2011: Invited to the 54th Venice Biennale – Italy Pavilion curated by Vittorio Sgarbi.

2012: Personal 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 shows in Terni (Galleria Canovaccio), Padova (Civic Gallery – Energheia)
Brussels (European Parliament – The Paths of the Soul).

2014-2015: Exhibitions in Pescara ("Inferno. Allegories of Consciousness", Aurum) and People ("Works", Taverna Ducale).
Solo show in Berlin (InArt Werkkunst Gallery).

He enters PRAESTIGIUM ITALIA II, the catalog following Luciano Benetton’s international collection “IMAGO MUNDI Luciano Benetton Collection.”
He is part of contemporary artists in the collective 44th parallels in Albenga (GR).

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

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

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

2022: "The Spacing of Thought – from the Danish Diary" (Grottammare).
Returns to exhibit at the San Gabriele Sacred Art Biennale. The work titled "Prophets of Hope, Creators of Beauty" marks the XVI edition of the most important European sacred art biennale."