Francesco Gennari
b. in 1973, Fano, Italy
lives and works in Pesaro and Milan, Italy
The practice of Francesco Gennari is based on minimal formal features and a metaphysical approach. He creates a cosmology of works, based essentially on self-portraiture, which find coherence not in the matter-of-fact aspect but in the conceptual sensibility that characterizes them. The artist generates works with a strong poetic value with the use of different materials (steel, marble, gold, mint syrup, bronze, orange peels): a real alphabet through which the artist unfold his aesthetic language and progressively builds a vast metaphysical landscape.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
“Perchè mi guardi così?”, curated by Leonardo Regano, LabOratorio degli Angeli, Bologna, IT
2022
“Francesco Gennari”, MUT/Mutina for Art, Fiorano Modenese, IT
2021
“Tutta la mia emotività sotto due nevicate”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2019
“Sta arrivando il temporale / The Storm is Coming”, GAMeC, Bergamo, IT
2018
“Greetings from the Moon”, Esther Schipper, Berlin, DE
2015
“Francesco Gennari”, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, IT
“Francesco Gennari”, FRAC Corse, Corte, FR
2014
“Francesco Gennari”, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, IT
2012
“Francesco Gennari”, Castello di Fosdinovo, Fosdinovo, IT
2009
“Picture this! Francesco Gennari”, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
2008
“Francesco Gennari”, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne Métropole, Saint-Etienne, FR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
“Aria Notturna”, organised by Neue Alte Brücke, Matt Williams and ZERO…, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2025
“La Pista 500, a new outdoor art project”, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin, IT
2024
“L’oro blu”, Museo dei Bronzi Dorati e della Città di Pergola, Pergola, IT
2023
“La donazione di Gemma De Angelis Testa”, Ca’ Pesaro – Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Venezia , IT
“Murphy’s Echoes”, CCC OD, Tours
“Au hasard, Balthazar : collection Benoît Doche de Laquintane”, Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille
2020
“FUORI”, Quadriennale d’Arte, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, IT
2019
“Joint is out of Time”, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, IT
2018
“Selection of works from the NMNM collection”, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco, MC
2017
“Strange Days”, Le Plateau/FRAC Île-de-France, Paris, FR
2016
“Ennesima. Una mostra di sette mostre sull’arte italiana”, Triennale di Milano, Milan, IT
“Otium #1 and Kata Tjuta”, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, FR
“Nomadisme”, FRAC Corse, Corte, BE
2015
“Il museo ideale: Capolavori dai musei italiani del XX secolo e dalla collezione Acacia”, Museo del Novecento, Milan, IT
2014
“Résonance(s)”, Maison Particulière, Brussels, BE
2013
“Paint It Black”, Le Plateau / FRAC Île-de-France, Paris, FR
2011
“Surreal Versus Surrealism in Contemporary Art”, IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, ES
“Arte essenziale”, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE
2010
“Die Natur der Kunst”, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, DE
2009
“Italics. Arte italiana tra tradizione e rivoluzione 1968–2008”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
“Italics. Arte italiana tra tradizione e rivoluzione 1968–2008”, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, IT
Manifesta 7, Trentino Alto Adige, IT
