Francesco Liggieri

Francesco Liggieri is a traditional, almost old-time, artist, but he feels comfortable with the fast and always changing contemporary time he lives in an he uses as nourishment for his work.
In fact, his pictorial style seems to have been grown and got stronger together with him during his slow transition from a child to an adult, without any impatient acceleration, but with a natural constancy which is very rare to find in a young artist today.
This natural approach and also this kind of stylistic evolution are supported by Francesco's inborn predisposition to consider art as a way to express himself, through the use of painting and colours, and also to get in touch with the world he lives in, since he was a child.
From the moment he used his first piece of chalk to draw a white line on a blue scrap of fabric, Francesco Liggeri's been keeping on testing different types of media and supports, such as tempera, oil colours, drawing pencils, wood, wall, paper, canvas, and he has accomplished his artistic style also thanks to his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Venice.
The debt to Pop and Street art is evident and it's the base of Francesco Liggieri's activity as an artist, however without hindering his genuine and personal t...

During his academic education he goes through the images of Picasso and Richter, combining the social involvement and the attention to the human figure with street sensitivity and a sort of post-pop freedom inspired by Haring, Salle and, recently, Bansky. He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice in 2006 with full marks. In the same year he founded Collettivo Rapido, a flexible collective which gets together artists in temporary collaborations and expositions. Since 2005 he participates steadily to exposition and artistic projects as solo artist.
Recently he is interested in experiments combining painting and installation.