Andrea Granchi

Andrea Granchi, painter, film-maker, curator and art professor, was born in Florence Italy 11-06-1947.

He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1969, he won the Stibbert Prize for painting in 1971. He is one of the protagonists of the Italian Cinema d'Artista, in which he has made numerous works, and curated international film series (1976-80) both in Italy and abroad (Paris Centre G. Pompidou, Philadelphia). Among the exhibits: Venice Biennale (1978 and 2011), Milan Triennale (1981) and Rome Quadriennale (1986). Among the invitations: Cinema d'artista in Tuscany (2004) at Centro Pecci in Prato, and Lo sguardo espanso. Italian artists' cinema 1912-2012(2012). Solo exhibitons/screenings: Inseguitore di Giganti at Palazzo Pinucci in Florence (1989), L’uomo che insegue l’ombra in Lugano (1989), Viaggi obliqui at Tour Fromage in Aosta (1993), Destini parallelit at CART in Falconara Marittima (2009), L’Adret e L’Envers realized in the Castle of S. Rhémy-en-Bosses for the Valle d'Aosta Region with works from 1967 to 2010 and the recent anthological exhibition entitled Il luogo dove i destini si incontrano at the Pinacoteca Civica in Volterra (2013). He has various artworks in buildings and public places, including the installation with the three-dimensional fresco. Viaggiatore sedentario di fronte al Grande produced for the open-air ...