Silvio Formichetti (1969) - Senza titolo

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

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

Dimensions: 60 x 87

Details of the signature: Signed at 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 Abruzzo landscapes, then in the 1990s evolved toward gestural abstraction and informality. A fundamental influence on 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 his energetic use of color, intense painterly gesture, and a visual language that expresses deep and dynamic states of mind.

Main events and exhibitions:

2003: Solo show at the Palazzetto dei Nobili in 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 shown at the National Museum of Musical Instruments in Rome and at the fourteenth-century Refettorio of the National Palace of Venice in Rome.

2008: Michetti Museum in Francavilla al Mare; XIII Stauròs Biennial of Sacred Art, 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).
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: 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 (Galleria Canovaccio), Padua (Galleria Civica – Energheia), Brussels (European Parliament – Paths of the Soul).

2014-2015: Exhibitions in Pescara (“Inferno. Allegories of Conscience”, 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 collective 44th parallels of Albenga (GR).

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

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

In 2020 he participated in the 25th Cimitile Prize at the Paleochristian Basilica Complex of Cimitile alongside 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. Work titled “Prophets of Hope, Creators of Beauty,” the XVI edition of Europe’s most important sacred art biennale.