Milano: “Don't stop the paint”, Francesco Tricarico's personal exhibition at the Fabbrica Eos Arte Contemporanea.
With the solo exhibition of Francesco Tricarico, “Don't stop the paint”, scheduled from 30 March to 29 April 2023, reopens the historic headquarters of Eos Contemporary Art Factory in Piazzale Baiamonti a Milano. The exhibition space joins Fabbrica Eos Gallery (Viale Pasubio, corner of Via Bonnet), effectively doubling the artistic offering of the Gallery, founded in 1987 by Giancarlo Pedrazzini. The inauguration will be held on Thursday 30 March starting from 11.00. Francesco Tricarico, Italian visual artist, singer, songwriter and musician, will be present, currently busy promoting his new single.
Unlike what one might assume from his long and important career in music, painting was the first form of artistic expression for Tricarico. An urgency of painting that also manifests itself in his language and in his approach, characterized by continuous superimpositions of layers of signs and colour. An artistic practice shared with the public through live painting preparatory to the exhibition, which in March 2023 led Francesco Tricarico to paint some of his works live at Fabbrica Eos Gallery, inviting art enthusiasts, specialists and the simply curious to follow him from 'large glass wall or to enter the Gallery to actively participate in the process.
«For many years – wrote Elisabetta Sgarbi on the occasion of the exhibition she curated in Bormio, as part of La Milanesiana – there has been a custom between me and Francesco Tricarico: at unspecified hours of the night he sends me images of his canvases, large canvases. So I have always been lucky enough to follow this artistic trajectory of Francesco Tricarico - already a very successful musician, performer and writer. These large canvases are explosions of colours, which, in the interweaving of lines, conquer a form, which is always the form of a restless interiority like that of Francesco".
Francesco Tricarico's color poetry explodes in his canvases, in a journey where the poetic and surprising gaze of the singer-songwriter meets an action painting, which is the fantastic landscape of an artist's world.
Francesco Tricarico writes: «Where Art ends, Life ends. I don't know if this has already been said. Only one rule in the Works: there must be no form that can be decodified by the eye. Everything must be in motion, layers overlapping layers color on color white on white on black on color for eternity, that there is depth. The word stops, the color and the wavy lines do not. Let the Works move and live the life that cannot be seen, that cannot be touched, that cannot be felt. May it be redemption from suffering and pain, may it be joy and live torment and justification and ancient and wise discourse and may it not care about the omissions of which we are all victims of art. In a Work there is a rectangle that contains a circle, the exception that proves the rule. I repeat. Where the Work ends, life ends."
The exhibition itinerary includes fifteen works in acrylic on canvas, created in the period 2021-2023. It is also complemented by a pair of canvases painted live in March. To support the exhibition, the catalog will be available in the Gallery “Double Triload”, curated by Elisabetta Sgarbi, created by the Elisabetta Sgarbi Foundation as part of La Milanesiana 2022 for the exhibition “Doppio Tricarico” (Banca Popolare di Sondrio, Bormio, 2022). For information: T. +39 02 6596532, info@fabbricaeos.it, www.fabbricaeos.it.
Francesco Tricarico is an Italian singer-songwriter. In September 2000 the first single "Io sono Francesco" was released, which rose to first place in the Italian ranking of best-selling singles and was awarded a Platinum Record. In 2002 he released his first album, "Tricarico", followed by other successful albums including "Giglio" (2008) - which contains the song "Vita Tranquilla" with which he won the Mia critics' award at the 2008 Sanremo Festival Martini – “The strawberry forest” (2009), “Invulnerabile” (2013), and “From those who don't expect it – first part” (2016). In April 2019, the single "Abbracciami fortissimo" was released, which anticipates the new album "Amore dillo senza riso ma non trovario serie" (2021). In 2009 he published his first book, “I simply forgot an elephant in my pocket”, and in 2019 “Palla persa. A love story." Tricarico, during his career, has written songs for many great artists, including Andriano Celentano, Zucchero, Gianni Morandi, Malika. For his pictorial work, he has collaborated with Giancarlo Pedrazzini's Galleria Fabbrica Eos since 2016.
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