Silvio Formichetti (1969) - Senza titolo

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

Title of the work: Untitled
Year of realization: 2020
Support/technique: painting on canvas applied to panel

Dimensions: 60 x 87

Detail of the signature: Signed in the bottom center 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 sent on a frame and securely packaged.

Silvio Formichetti is an Italian painter, one of the leading exponents of contemporary Italian informal painting. He began his artistic career with portraits of female nudes and Abruzzi landscapes, then evolved, from the 1990s, toward gestural abstraction and informale. A fundamental influence in his development is 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, intense painterly gesture, and a visual language that expresses deep and dynamic states of mind.

Major events and exhibitions:

2003: Solo show at Palazzetto dei Nobili of 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 refectory of the 15th-century National Palace of Venice Museum in Rome.

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

2009-2010: Solo show titled “Labirinti dell’anima” at the Palazzo Guicciardini space in Milan Province.

2011: Solo show "Dialogue with the Infinite" at Bramante Cloister (Rome).
Solo show curated by Paolo Levi titled "Alfabeti dell’anima" - Palazzo Oddo (Albenga).

2011: 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 Architetture Cromatiche (Varna - Graffity Art Gallery).

2013: Solo shows in Terni (Galleria Canovaccio), Padua (Galleria Civica – Energheia); Brussels (European Parliament – I sentieri dell’anima).

2014-2015: Exhibitions in Pescara ("Inferno. Allegorie della coscienza", Aurum) and Popoli ("Opere", Taverna Ducale).
Solo show in Berlin (InArt Werkkunst Gallery).

He enters the PRAESTIGIUM ITALIA II publication, the catalog that follows Luciano Benetton’s international collection “IMAGO MUNDI Luciano Benetton Collection”.
He is part of contemporary artists in the 44th parallels collective 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), “Informale 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 Magazzini del Sale.
He is awarded the Certilux Award for the art “Made in Italy”.

In 2020 he participates in the 25th Cimitile Prize at the Paleochristian Basilical 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).

He returns to exhibit at the Sacred Art Biennale of San Gabriele. The work titled "Prophets of Hope, Creators of Beauty" is part of the sixteenth edition of Europe’s most important sacred art biennale.