Mimmo Frassineti

Rome, Latium, Italy

About Mimmo Frassineti

I was born in Castel San Pietro, a small town in the North of Italy, near Bologna. I studied in Rome where I graduated in History of modern art. I always practiced drawing and painting. My first jobs have been as a designer in film and television and as an illustrator for some magazines. Then I devoted to photography and journalism following my desire to travel. I realized reportages from Irak, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Yemen, Turkey, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Russia, Romania, Poland, Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, China, United States, and from almost all the nations of western Europe. I teach journalism, graphics and photography. The journey through space and time is also the focus of my painting: distant dreamed lands, under a sky that evokes at the same time day and night. Cities with towers, steeples and domes of brilliant colors, over which opens a cosmos crossed by stars, planets, galaxies. For me traveling is also going in search of great personages that have marked my life, as Charles Baudelaire, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Giovanna d'Arco, Wassily Kandinskij or Edgard Allan Poe. I try to approach them with the penetrating gaze of the photographer and the invention of the painter, in the attempt to grasp their essence.

Education:

For me canvas is a place of meditation and construction, of immersion in the past and of projection in the future. I have a boundless faith in the color, a color clean and bright. I like to move on the border between figuration and abstraction. I would like to get both, turning the sensible forms - men, animals buildings, skies and countries - into perfectly abstract painting.

Exhibitions:

Ritratti in fabbrica. Underwood Gallery, 1982
Blu. Underwood Gallery,1985
Man Ray. Underwood Gallery, 1885
Ritratto di un liceo. Liceo Tasso, 1990
Foto inedite del Venerdì di Repubblica. Galleria Monique Gregory, 1991
Roma dei fotografi. Acquario Romano 1992
Ovest di Omaha. Oca Gallery, 1993
Eros e ufficialità nei monumenti dell'Italia umbertina. Oca Gallery, 1995
Il Mondo è dei bambini. Raccolta di fondi in favore della ricerca sulla distrofia muscolare, per Telethon, 1995
Tre sguardi sulla Cina. Il Segno Gallery, 1997
Prima Repubblica. Il Segno Gallery, 2001
La strada dell’utopia. Pio Sodalizio dei Piceni, 2006
Terre Emerse. Sinopia Gallery, 2009
Senza Rete. Sala Margana Gallery, 2011
C’era una volta. Macro Pelanda Museum, 2011/12
Villaggio Olimpico - Villaggio delle arti. Auditorium Parco della Musica, 2012
C’era una volta…Gioco e giocattolo. Macro Pelanda Museum, 2012/13
Il Sentiero delle Meraviglie. Rainbow Magic Land, 2013
Roma 1914 – Storie della città. Mercati di Traiano, 2014
I volti delle storie. Roma, Centro Elsa Morante, 2014
Urbs Picta. La Street Art a Roma. Museo Carlo Bilotti, 2015/2016