Silvio Formichetti (1969) - Senza Titolo

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

Title of the work: Untitled
Year of creation: 2025

Dimensions: 23.50 x 30

Signature details: bottom left - on the back

Edition: Unique piece

Provenance: Private collection

Documentation: Certificate of authenticity included

Conditions: Excellent overall condition; no imperfections

Shipping: The artwork will be sent on stretcher 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 Abruzzo landscapes, then, from the 1990s, evolved toward gestural abstraction and informale. A fundamental influence on his development is the American Action Painting (in particular Jackson Pollock) and figures such as Afro Basaldella, Emilio Vedova, Gianni Dova, and Hans Hartung. Formichetti is known for his energetic use of color, an intense painting gesture, and a visual language that expresses deep and dynamic states of mind.

Major events and exhibitions:

2003: Solo exhibition at the Palazzetto dei Nobili dell’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 shown at the National Museum of Musical Instruments in Rome and at the Fourteenth-Century Refectory of the National Palace of Venice in Rome.

2008: Michetti Museum in Francavilla al Mare; XIII Sacred Art Stauròs Biennial, San Gabriele Museum (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).
A solo show curated by Paolo Levi titled "Alphabets of the Soul" - Palazzo Oddo (Albenga).

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

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

2013: Solo shows in Terni (Canovaccio Gallery), Padua (Civic Gallery – Energheia) Brussels (European Parliament – The Trails 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 accompanying Luciano Benetton’s international collection “IMAGO MUNDI Luciano Benetton Collection.”
He is part of contemporary artists in the group show 44th parallels in Albenga (GR).

2016-2017: Solo exhibitions "Evolution of Silence" (Umbertide) and “Omnia Mutantur” (Civic Museum of SS. Annunziata, Sulmona); participation in the Sulmona Prize.

2018-2019: Exhibitions "The Silence That Shouts" (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 was selected for the first edition of the show “The Thousands of Sgarbi” in Cervia (RA) at the Magazzini del Sale.
He received the Certilux Award for art “Made in Italy.

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

2022: "The Spacing of Thought – from the Danish Diary" (Grottammare).
He returns to exhibit at the San Gabriele Sacral Art Biennale. The work titled "Prophets of Hope, Creators of Beauty" opens the XVI edition of Europe’s most important sacred art biennale."