Filippo Francocci

My work explores the space between abstraction and figuration. I often begin intuitively, allowing shapes, marks and colours to develop into complex, imaginary worlds.

Once completed, a work might remind me of a cavernous landscape, a night sky filled with stars and galaxies, or an underwater scene. To someone else, the same image might suggest a microscopic organism, an aerial view of the Earth or an alien landscape.

I enjoy this openness to interpretation. The work is never entirely static; its meaning can shift depending on who is looking at it. It is this ambiguous space between the recognisable and the unknown that I seek to explore.

I was born in 1974 in Città di Castello, Italy, and grew up in South Africa, where I obtained a BA in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. I subsequently lived in London and Rome, and now live and work on the Costa Brava in Spain.

BA Fine Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa
VCA online artists residency

Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2012 Art@school, British Institutes Pomezia, Rome, Italy
2008 Inheritance, Festival dei due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy2004-2005 Filippo Francocci, Borni management srl, Rome, Italy 1997 Filippo Francocci, Festival dei due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy

Selected Group Exhibitions
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2023 In-Between festival (Online Exhibition)
2022 Art Basel Miami, exhibited an NFT on a digital screen through Artcrush
2021 Time and tide, Art gallery 118, Virtual exhibition
2021 Discarded: A Recycle Art Exhibit, Virtual exhibition by the Ikouii Creative, Atlanta, US
2020 Covid_2020 Virtual Gallery , Online Exhibition by 212 productions, UK2020 Covid_2020 Virtual Gallery , Online Exhibition by 212 productions, UK
2016 Visionari Vol. 2, PunkRazio, Rome, Italy

2015 Visionari, PunkRazio, Rome, Italy
2014 Stoned Zombies, Palarockness, Genzano, Rome, Italy
2008 Fleurs Opere d’amore, 2nd edition, Palazzo del Comune, Spoleto, Italy

2006 Premio OpenArt 2006, Sale del Bramante, Piazza del Popolo, Rome, Italy

2005 I colori del Lazio, Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari, Rome, Italy
2004 L’arte nell’Uovo di Pasqua, Fendi Gallery, Rome, Italy

2004 4 Trofeo ACCA in...Arte, Four Point Hotel Sheraton, Rome, Italy

1999 Student Exhibi...