Francesco Dea
Napoli, Italy
4 Works exhibited on Kooness
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Works by Francesco Dea
Francesco Dea was born in Naples in 1972.
After completing classical and legal studies, he approached the world of Art with increasing enthusiasm. In fact, his passion for music and literature led him, from a very young age, to deal with artistic and intellectual circles, enabling him to cultivate and refine an already marked natural sensitivity. After having undertaken legal studies, in 2000 he conducted an accurate study on colour and spontaneously turned to painting, immediately receiving excellent feedback from critics and the public, also thanks to his frequentation of recognised Neapolitan masters.
In 2012, he moved first to Lucca and then to Florence, where over the years he built up his work as a tour guide and dedicated himself to the search for a more conscious conception of his own artistic standards and objectives, further perfecting his technique and 'right vision' aimed at achieving a more responsive and clearer expression of his inner world on canvas. From the very beginning, his painting revealed itself to be instinctive, powerful, emotional, but at the same time sophisticated and marked by the remarkable elegance of the stroke. Gifted with a particular visionary talent, he succeeds in infusing his works with a remarkable emotional and visual intensity, thanks to the energy of the images evoked, the sensitivity in the choice of hues and the use of the material qualities of colour, which weaves on and off the canvas, suddenly giving rise to surprising explosions of colour. surprising chromatic explosions.
An interest in the mystical and esoteric world, accompanied by an authentic introspective research into the profound essence of the existential path each of us is called upon to follow, are traits deeply inherent in his creations. The representations obtained are the fruit of an extremely oneiric conception of the world around us, presenting abstractions with characters of depth and movement in which faces, objects, places and distinguishable forms swirl. distinguishable forms.
The artist's intention is that the naturalness mixed with expressive and chromatic strength of the images he proposes should be able to strike the observer's imagination to distract him from the limited confines of material reality, almost as if to shake his innermost soul to call forth its most dormant and hidden voices. most dormant and hidden voices.
The artistic method reflected in his works suggests references to Abstract Expressionism, Abstractionism and Informal painting, translating - however - into an absolutely recognisable style with characteristic traits.
Artist statement:
"A passion for art has driven me towards pictorial representation, esoteric studies and curiosity about subtle worlds have amplified my visionary imagination, giving shape to my paintings; at the basis of my artistic activity, however, there is above all the desire to communicate on a pure, profound level, possibly with a positive outlook, and to ceaselessly discover the correspondence between what is inside and what is outside of us. The message sent must simply be the one that reaches everyone. The observer of the paintings receives what resonates in his or her own consciousness at that moment in life, in the most direct way in which he or she is able to perceive it, offering him or her a new space for his or her own inner search. My work consists of showing the invisible to make it conscious and visible, in unpredictable and ancestral colours, ways and forms."
Exhibitions, Publications and Events
2020 Publication in the International Art Catalogue ArtNow - number V, year III
2020 Florence - Leonardo da Vinci International Prize - Nominated
2020 Online auction of the painting: "Lunar Influences" - Gigarte Selection: Modern and Contemporary Art - Lot 121 - Catalogue Abstract Lot 121.
2017 Online solo exhibition "Alchemy" - FlorenceArt Gallery of Contemporary Art
2016 Group exhibition promoted by Associazione Ausonia at the presentation room of the Hotel Duomo, Pisa.
2015 Personal Exhibition "I Sentieri della Mente" at Banca Fideuram, Rome.
2010 Berlin - Group exhibition '600 Artworks' - Infantellina Contemporary Art Gallery.
2010 Publication in the 11th International Catalogue of Modern Art "I Maestri del Secolo" ed. CIDA.
2010 Invitation to participate in the International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence 2011.
2009 Berlin - Group exhibition "Starway to Heaven" - Infantellina Contemporary Art Gallery.
2009 Invitation to participate in the International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence 2009.
2008 Naples - Solo exhibition "Memories from the Invisible", promoted by the Soprintendenza Archival Service for Campania/Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Palazzo Marigliano, as part of the European Heritage Days 2008. Publication in the event catalogue.
2008 Rome - Group exhibition - Galleria Studio Logos, Trastevere.
2008 Turin - Italian Wave competition, organised by Artissima, International Contemporary Art Fair. Contemporary Art Fair.
2008 Rome - Talent Prize 2008, organised by Fondazione Roma.
2008 Rome - Group exhibition 'Nudi & Informali'- Galleria Studio Logos, Trastevere.
2008 Naples - Exhibition at the 'Giallo di Napoli' Art Studio.
2008 Ankara (Turkey) - Exhibition at the Art Studio "Turel Atelier".
2008 Barletta - Solo exhibition "Arde una Fiamma" - Centro culturale Zerouno, Sala permanence.
2008 Naples - Solo exhibition "RedRoom" - C.I.R.C.L.A. Cultural Association, Pozzuoli.
2008 Florence - Group exhibition "Art, philosophy of life". Publication in exhibition catalogue exhibition - La Pergola Gallery.
2008 Naples - Group exhibition "8 Marzo: Non Fiori Ma Opere". Publication in exhibition catalogue of the exhibition - Giu*Box Gallery.
2007 Ferrara - Group exhibition "Colori Caldi - Colori Freddi", Galleria Sekanina.
2007 Naples - Finalist at the I edition "Premio Merliani 137". Publication in the catalogue of the competition catalogue.
2007 Pesaro - III ediz. "Premio Crociata XS" for minimal images.
2007 Participation in the selection "Pagine bianche d'Autore", ediz. 2007-2008.
2007 Milan - II ediz. competition "Profilo d'Arte 2007".
2007 Barletta - Collective exhibition "Assemblage sentimentale", Centro culturale Zerouno.
2007 Naples - Solo exhibition "Atmosfere Artistiche" - Cultural Association C.I.R.C.L.A., Pozzuoli.
2006 Naples - 'L'Arte al Vomero' collective exhibition - Galleria Merliani 137.
2006 Naples - Group exhibition 'Naples on the move' - Merliani Gallery 137
2006 Participation in the Seat selection "Pagine bianche d'Autore", ediz. 2006-2007.
2005 Naples - Collective exhibition "Art among the people", in Piazza Carita'.
2005 Naples - Group exhibition "Art among the people", in Via Chiaia.
2004 Naples - Bazaar N.A.T.O. exhibition.
2003 Rome - Awarded at the XXVI edition of the "Medusa Aurea" Trophy, organised by the International Academy of Modern Art.
2003 Naples - Exhibition Bazaar N.A.T.O.
2002 Naples - Solo exhibition - exhibition space "Planet".
2002 Naples - Group exhibition - exhibition space "Planet".