Francesca Giraudi

I have always thought that my painting was expressionist and German, intent on sounding the human being interiority, his less attractive and contradictory aspects.
I am not interested in seeking out an aesthetic, in the name of a decorative art, with his changing canons and rules.
I love bluntness and through painting I try to put it in practice and do it my flag.
The honesty, however, highlights the irregularities, the angularities, the harshnesses, the fragilities and our and world’s shadows.
Magic, in painting as in life, is being able to melt the opposites: lightness in weight, surface in depth.
Colour in my work is the predominant component and towards it I feel curiosity and astonishment and a natural propensity. I never execute a preparatory drawing on the canvas and I start at once with colour. Initially it’s the acrylic and afterwards I add the oil to give more emphasis and three-dimensionality to a detail. Sometimes I mix both, making them become a paste that I spread with the spatula, the knife or the fingers.
The white, which I essentially use to ‘close’ a work, is the most powerful ‘not-colour’ and gives me the idea of a certainty.
Being affected by creating through colour, I try to control my stroke the les...

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO. Major: Political Sciences. Specialty: Economy of Art.
Degree: Doctor in Political Sciences, November 29th, 1999
Thesis: “The exhaustive reading in the model of the Industrial Economy: Three Studies for a Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne (1965) by Francis Bacon”, conducted at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, where the triptych by Francis Bacon is held.

Solo exhibition, “With the Eye”, with 20 paintings, acrylic and gouaches, and 20 poems on display at Rudolf Art Café (Via Borgospesso 22, Milano) May 24- June 25 2005.
Solo exhibition “Del colore del corallo” at Galleria Blanchaert (Pza S. Ambrogio, Milano) June 2007.
Recorded in the Catalogue (Rizzoli Editions) “13x17- 1000 artists for an eccentric survey on art in Italy” edit by Philippe Daverio e Jean Blanchaert.
Group exhibition “The alchemist: the importance of dreams. Homage to Paulo Coelho” (DARS Foundation Turin; La Spezia, Feb. 2009.
Group exhibition “The energy of the look” (DARS Foundation Milano, 2009, 2010).
Among the finalists of the 3rd International Art Contest SaturaPRIZE 2012 with an art work published on the Catalogue and on display at Palazzo Stella, Genoa (December 1rst- 22nd 2012). Group exhibition “LiberARTE” at Palazzo Stella, Genoa (1/19 - 2/2 2013).
On display with two works at GenoaArtFair (2/14- 2/18/2013).
Group exhibition at Galleria Alter Ego, Ponte Tresa -Switzerland (2/8 - 3/3 2013).

Art works in Private Collections.