Sculpture to wear Sculpture

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 her work. At the heat of her artistic development lies the search for harmony, and the striving towards harmony is therefore manifested in the resulting artistic composition. Franca Franchi has participated in an increasing number of exhibitions over the last five years.