Tancredi Fornasetti - Luci nella notte

Tancredi Fornasetti exhibits in important Italian and international galleries.

Tancredi Fornasetti was born in Rome in 1983, where he still lives and works. A graduate in Decoration at the Rome Academy of Fine Arts under the guidance of Professor Michele Cossyro, he has developed from his early days a fiercely personal painterly language, intertwining geometry, architecture, and a deep sensitivity to color.

His work sits within the broad horizon of Abstract Art, yet renews its coordinates with a contemporary and visionary approach. In his paintings, lines and planes multiply into perspectives and complex structures that evoke imaginary urban spaces, impossible architectures, and metaphysical geometries. The artist draws from both the rationalism of the Thirties and De Chirico’s lessons, filtering them through a sensibility shaped by digital experience and the visual culture of our time.

Fornasetti’s painting does not merely describe; it processes and transforms. References to art history—from Mondrian to Kandinsky, from Malevich to Soldati—blend with the suggestiveness of cinema, set design, and virtual reality, giving rise to a visual syntax that combines analytical rigor with emotional impulse. His “contemporary skylines,” painstakingly created by hand freehand, result from an equilibrium between order and chaos, between geometric construction and instinctive gesture.

The relationship between space and color is the heart of his research: a constant dialogue between opposing forces—centripetal and centrifugal, analytical and synthetic—that generates a continuous visual vibration. His surfaces open like doors, streets, and windows to worlds that contradict and support each other at the same time, guiding the gaze along infinite routes.

From 2006 to the present, Fornasetti has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, collaborating with galleries, museums, and notable curators. Venues that have hosted his works include Galleria Mucciaccia, Galleria Mario Giusti HQ in Milan, Virus Art Gallery, and Galleria Medina in Rome, as well as international projects curated by La Maison de La Petite Sara in the Republic of San Marino. Over the years he has participated in exhibitions such as Affordable Art Fair, Tiferno Comics, ArtExpo Arezzo, and initiatives curated by figures like Achille Bonito Oliva, Vincenzo Mollica, and Francesco Gallo Mazzeo.

A cultured and curious artist, Fornasetti continues to question painting as a living, constantly transforming language. His works bring together memory and innovation, introspection and experimentation, creating a visual universe in which geometry becomes emotion and space becomes storytelling.

Pamela Fiacconi, Kou Gallery Rome

Tancredi Fornasetti’s works are present in numerous private collections worldwide.

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