Denis Defrancesco

French artist born in 1954, He lives and works between Prague (Czech Republic), Budapest (Hungary) and Aix-en-Provence (France).▪️A Multifaceted Artist
Self-taught, atypical, and iconoclastic, Denis Defrancesco uses a whole range of techniques and materials to give form to his ideas, fantasies, and anxieties.

A great ape in bronze, a giant plexiglass rabbit, a blow-up doll made of marble, a plastic Obama, a steel machine for slicing memories, a urinal in oil paint... He keeps giving the world his own twist, transfiguring reality to tell us stories: a childhood fear, a teenage memory, a passionate love affair, time fleeting, the body declining, death lurking. It is pop, electric, often bold, and always free.

His work, both carnal and scientific, blends bronze with marble, paint with plexiglass, steel with plastic. He likes nothing more than mixing genres and spurning styles.

Denis Defrancesco is an exalted introvert, an exhibitionist full of modesty, who creates an eclectic, surprising, insolent, and personal body of work with his monumental sculptures, 3-D paintings, and metamorphosized idols.

A text accompanies each of his sculptures and paintings, like the key to a specific story.

▪️Private gallery in Aix en...

During 35 years, Denis Defrancesco photographed “Woman with a capital W”… Actually, thousands of women, for the most prestigious French and international adult and glamour magazines. His “eye” and his reputation as a “creator of worlds” took him to London, New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Sydney, and Tokyo.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Denis was the first Western photographer to “go East”, to help the world discover the most beautiful models from Central Europe. Living in Budapest, in the early 1990s, he joined the digital revolution in its early stages, adapting his reflex camera and studios to the web. Very soon, his websites became the most coveted on the net.

For all these years, Denis Defrancesco has never stopped drawing, making plans, project models, collages, and experimenting with forms and volumes: “Everything I loved to do as a child,” he explains. Years of secretive, almost alchemical work that has now come of age. The start of a corpus that Denis Defrancesco has now decided to present.

Biennale di Venezia 2017
La Burle - Aix en Provence 2018
Milano NHow 2019
Sculpture Line Prague 2019
Gallery Knupp Prague 2020-2021.