Francesco Cervelli

Francesco Cervelli was born in 1965 in Rome, where he also lives and works. After his academic studies he moved to Paris, where he studied art of the late nineteenth century as well as the places frequented by the artists of the time.

During his artistic career Cervelli exhibited in numerous galleries and international museum spaces. In 2010 he exhibited at the Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo at the collective Italian eyes. Horizon One and in 2007 he participated in the exhibition On the edge of vision, new idioms in Indian & Italian contemporary art at the Victoria Memoria Hall in Calcutta. In 2008 he joined the XV Quadrennial of Rome and in 2010 he participated and won the 61st edition of the Premio Michetti in Francavilla al Mare a Chieti. In 2016 his last personal exhibition was set up in Switzerland at the L&C Tirelli gallery, in Vevey, entitled Manifestazione di un sogno. In 2017 he exhibited with Mauro Di Silvestre at the exhibition Nel Fondo del tempo, at Mucciaccia Contemporary in Rome.

In most of his works, Francesco Cervelli combines a high technical resolution of painting with laborious conceptual antecedents, which he organizes into real pictorial cycles that tend to rework the reality in unsettling circumstances from the peremptory dreamlike matrix. He has been conducting research for a long time focusing on the studies of artists from the last century. “In recent years my attention has turned to the artists' studios.” Affirms Francesco Cervelli “More precisely to those who, from my point of view, have intensified a more spiritual tendency of art. I refer to, only to name a few, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon or even transversally to Andy Warhol”.