Federico Gessi

A research on the balance.

A synthesis of shape, concept, space, balance and matter. In order to enter the work of Federico Gessi is necessary to start from a project that the artist marks on a simple piece of paper, caged in the Golden Section rules and the anthropometric scale of proportions devised by Le Corbusier, known as "Modulor": the place where he can sets free all his creativity. Repeated and rhythmical measures.

Proportions that refer to the canon of Renaissance beauty and which interpret, with the contemporary’s language, an all-Italian heritage of compositional harmony. The geometric perspective’s tradition becomes balance, the interpretation is the choice to put into dialogue shapes and materials, colors and linear signs.
These are the bases where he founds his "Strutturazioni", interesting and vibrant artworks, as if "esprit de geometrie" and "esprit de finesse" just naturally mix.

A game of balances and shining surfaces, marked with the smoothness of the paint in contrast with the roughness of the stones. Tactile sensations enclosed in lines marking the two-dimensional space, spreading outside in protruding metal elements. Cold, glazed, smooth and cryptic. Counter-parts of the Plexiglas transparency and st...

Federico Gessi was born in Pesaro (Italy) in 1973 in an ordinary family, mom was a housewife and his father had diverse works: tailor, artisan, seller but mainly he was an inventor and a dreamer!
Grown up with the Arnaldo Pomodoro’s “Sfera Grande”, symbol of the city, always present in his mind. Since adolescence, he remains totally dazzled by his work, by the expressive languages of Le Corbusier and by the Russian artistic avant-gardes (Malevich, El Lissitzky, Melnikov), true loves that will guide his future choices and academicals studies. He graduated in Building Engineering in 2000 at the "Politecnico delle Marche", shaping his artistic and creative nature with the passionate study of geometry, architecture and arts.

The thirst for knowledge drove him to travel all around Europe, looking for modern and contemporary architecture able to enrich his academicals studies, then visiting museums and art galleries in the autumn 1996 he decided to spend some months in Paris. When returned in Italy, he started immediately to paint assiduously with synthetic paint, pushed by and incredible spiritual expressive charge and, at the same time, he started to frequent artisans, carpenters, blacksmiths and painters workshops.

The paint st...

Group exhibitions / Selection

2019
Finalist Artworks Exhibition, "Malamegi Lab 11" at the Transnational Centre for Visual Arts "ImagoArs" of Venice, curated by Massimo Toffolo e Margherita Jedrzejewska.
https://www.lab.malamegi.com/it/info/lab-11

2018
Finalist Artworks Exhibition, "23th Edition of the Marche Prize" at the Forte Malatesta (Malatesta Fort) of Ascoli Piceno, curated by A.M.I.A. (Marche Association of Artistic Initiatives). https://www.premiomarche.it
Finalist Artworks Exhibition, "Arte Prize - Mondadori Cairo Editore" at Palazzo Reale, P.zza Duomo, Milan, editor in Chief Michele Bonuomo. https://www.cairoeditore.it/Premio-Arte-/2018-Finalisti-e-Vincitori.html
Finalist Artworks Exhibition, "BAC - Biancoscuro Art Contest 2018" at Monte Carlo Bay Resort, Principality of Monaco, curated by Vincenzo Chetta. https://artcontest.biancoscuro.it/site/vincitori
Finalist Artworks Exhibition, "BAC Winter 2017", 8th Edition of Art Parma Fair (Parma), curated by Vincenzo Chetta.

2017
"Salon des Refusés", at "Gare82 Gallery" (Brescia), curated by Ettore Marchina. http://www.gare82.net/
Finalist Artworks Exhibition, "9th Edition of the Nocivelli Prize" at the Church of the Discipline of Verolanuova (Brescia), curat...