Franca Franchi

Franca Franchi was born in 1961 in Piacenza, where she works. She lives in the countryside outside the city. She atten- ded the traditional Classical Language Grammar School there, and later took a degree in Law, and has now been wor- king as a lawyer for more than twenty years. Her artistic talents, which during her adolescence were expressed in pain- ting, for which she was awarded prizes (some of which by the Ricci Oddi Gallery Of Modern Art, Piacenza), were until recently channelled mainly into interior design, with the creation of living spaces in a variety of difference residences. In 2008, while continuing in her career as a lawyer, she took up artistic work again, finding inspiration in the fascinating theory of a Japanese scientist which consider the influence of human words on water through vibration, and the energy originating from the words themselves, which in certain conditions bring about the creation of highly harmonic water crystals. This was the inspiration behind the realization of the artist's "crystals", though she distances herself figuratively in her own artistic compositions from the water crystals so superbly photographed in the work of the scientist. The artist uses exclusively waste mirror and glass for ...

“I miei cristalli “- Association Amici dell’Arte, Piacenza, 20 December 2008-11 January 2009.

Personal exhibition - Oldrado da Ponte Gallery, Lodi, June 2009.

Collective exhibition Con le stelle -Oldrado da Ponte Gallery, Lodi, July 2009.

Proponendo, New proposals for contemporary art - Lazzaro by Corsi Gallery, Palasport Forte dei Marmi, August 2009.

Collective exhibition, selection for Piacenza for the “8th International Biennial Of Contemporary Art” in Rome 2010, October 2009.

Collective exhibition “Il colore dell’anima” - Palazzo San Vitale, Cremona.

“Frantumazione Architettata” - Transvisionismo Gallery, Castell’Arquato (Piacenza), 13 December 2009-22 January 2010.

Exhibition - Great Hall of the Palazzo Gotico, Piacenza, April 2010.

Collective exhibition “L’acqua e la memo ria”- Palazzo Farnese, Piacenza, April 2010.

Collective exhibition Arte Surreale- Immagini Spazio Arte Gallery, Cremona, 25 April-8 May 2010.

Personal exhibition - Paradox Restaurant, Milan, 13 May-20 October 2010.

Collective exhibition, NaturArte, Lodi, Cornegliano Laudense, Bertonico, Castiglione D’Adda, June-December 2010.

Collective exhibition World Fine Art, New York, 20-28 October 2010.

Franca Fr...