Francesco Cervelli

Francesco Cervelli was born in Rome in 1965, where he lives and works. After high school, he moves to Paris to study late nineteenth century art, and the places visited by the artists of the time.

He has exhibited in many international galleries and museums: in 2010 he showed at the exhibition Under Italian eyes, Horizon One at Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo and in 2007 he participated in On the edge of vision, new idioms in Indian & Italian contemporary art, Victoria Memory Hall, Calcutta. In 2008 he took part XV Quadriennale of Rome and in 2010 he was awarded the 61st edition of the Michetti Prize, Francavilla al Mare, Chieti. In 2016, his latest solo show , Manifestazioni di un sogno, is set up at the Galerie L&C Tirelli in Vevey, Switzerland. In 2017 he had the exbithion with Mauro Di Silvestre entitled Nel Fondo del Tempo, at the Mucciaccia Contemporary in Rome.

Francesco Cervelli combines a high technical resolution of painting with laborious conceptual antecedents, that he organizes in genuine pictorial cycles, which tends to elaborates in uninhibited circumstances of a peremptory oneiric matrix. He has long been conducting a research focused on the artists’ studios of the last century. «In recent years my attention has turned to the artist’s ateliers of the last century, -Francesco Cervelli explains- more precisely to those who, from my point of view, have intensified a more spiritual tendency of art. I refer only to cite a few to Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon or even transversely to Andy Warhol. »