FRANCESCO DE MOLFETTA
1979 in Milan, Italy. Lives and works in Milan.
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Francesco De Molfetta was born in 1979, he now lives and works in Milan.
Francesco De Molfetta's work has a striking impact above all for their immediate legibility that are distinguished for their characterized irony. A sometimes extreme irony, irreverent, that makes a clean square of communal locations and easy/false morals. This young artist assembles small every day objects with recuperated characters of toys and small models of modelling, creating situations at the same time fun and open spaced, that live a representing paradox. A paradox not so far away, if you like, of the lived life, with more or less anxiety of daily life. Characters that seem impassable when completing their proper actions, ignoring the consequences of their behaviour. De Molfetta plays with words, on their signification, representation, unstableness, ironically on their fear and on their sense of precariousness and danger that now more than ever inseparable and accompany. The unstable balance of this precarious situation comes also represented distorted, alternating unlikely realistic proportions represented between objects and humans.
Within these works Basilea the artist will present her personnel vision of Italian politics and folk law, jumping from art history to recent chronicles, and an installation specific site with the presence of garden gnomes to speak about our "beautiful country" on the edge of the abyss.
Francesco De Molfetta collaborates and exhibits with the gallery Colossi contemporary Art of Brescia.

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Francesco De Molfetta, Atlantica gallery, Altavilla, Vicenza
2010 New Idols, The Don Gallery, Milan
2010 ASILO POLITICO, whit G. Giannetti, curated by A. Marino, Orizzonti Arte Gallery, Bari.
2009 RAAB Gallery, Berlin, (DE)
2009 Italians do it better, whit G. Veneziano, Angel Art Gallery (curated by Luca Beatrice and Giampiero Mughini), Milan
2008 Fiato Sprecato, F. De Molfetta, and Aldo Mondino “ Colossi Arte Brescia
2006 Frankie Goes To Hollywood, 2000eNovecento Gallery, Reggio Emilia
2006 The end of the world, curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga c/o Gallery, Ronchini Arte, Terni

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Pensiero Fluido, Spazio Oberdan, curated by Alberto Mattia Martini whit the collaboration of Officine dell’Immagine, Milan
2010 IL MA, Fabbrica del Vapore, curated by Fiordalice Sette, Milan
2010 Fuga per un picnic, Galleria Toselli, Milan
2010 L’immagine del suono, curated by L. Beatrice, Villa Bottini Museum, Lucca
2010 Biennal of Contemporary Sacred Art, San Gabriele, Teramo
2010 Pop comics world summertime show, Galerie 208, Paris, (FRANCE)
2010 Me, myself and I, Raab Galerie ,Berlin, (GERMANY)
2010 L’immagine del suono, curated by L. Beatrice, Museum of villa Giuinigi, Lucca
2010 Movers & Shakers, the Ronin Gallery, Los Angeles, California , curated by Gino Joukar, (USA)
2010 Benefits Exhibition and Auction, Sotheby’s for ADISCO, Milan
2009 L’una e l’altra: the Art side of the moon, Galleria Colossi Arte, Brescia
2009 7 Italian Vision, exhibition correlated of ArtBasel 2009, curated by Lapo Simeoni, Art.Lab Gallery, (CH)
2009 Mille Miglia..d’Arte, Museum of Santa Giulia , Sala dell’affresco, Brescia
2008 PLAY AGAIN, Paola Verrengia Gallery - Salerno
2008 New Art New Pop vol. II – the evolution, curated by di Igor Zanti , Spazio Studio Gallery, Milan
2007 LINEE ALL’ORIZZONTE, curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Gallery of Modern Art, Genoa
2006 Non è tutto oro quel che luccica… Luisa Delle Piane Gallery, Milano
2006 Group Show “Western Contemporary Art”, Tokyo Gallery - Tokyo, (JAPAN)
2006 CONTAINER.1 - curated by Oliver Tschirky (deputy director of Art Basel) c/o AR Contemporary Gallery, Milan
2005 Affinitès Museum of Contemporary Art of Besançon “Saline Royale”, (FRANCE)
2005 Museo di Ancona, Mole Vanvitelliana-“ Opera al Nero”
2004 “ALLARMI”, Caserma De Cristoforis, Como
2004 Miart, “le armi dell’arte” c/o Palazzo Pino Pascali Musum, Polignano, Bari

SELECTED ART FAIR
2010 ArtVerona Fair , stand Colossi Arte, AngelArt gallery, Officine dell’Immagine
2010 ArtMonaco ’10 Art Fair, stand Angelart Gallery, Munich, (GERMANY)
2010 Miart , Fair of Milan, stand Colossi Arte contemporanea, Milan
2010 ART FIRST Bologna Arte Fiera, stand galleria Ronchini, Bologna
2009 ArtVerona Art Fair, stand Colossi Arte and Angelart Gallery, Verona
2009 Fiera di Bologna Arte fiera, stand Colossi Arte Gallery, Bologna
2008 Fiera di Bergamo, stand Colossi Arte Gallery, Bergamo
2007 Cornice Art Fair, Venice, in correlation of the Biennal of Venice 2007.
2007 Miart Art Fair, stand Ronchini Gallery, Galleria 2000 e Novecento, Milan
2007 ArtAgnes, art fair, Agnes Hotel in Kagurazaka, Tokyo, (JAPAN)
2006 Artissima13, fiera d’Arte Contemporanea di Torino, stand Gallery, Turin
2006 Arco Madrid, stand gallery T20, Mursia, (SPAIN)
2005 DFOTO Art Fair, galera T20, Murcia, (SPAIN)
2005 Artissima 12 Art Fair, stand Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery, Turin
2005 Valencia Art Fair - stand galleria T20, Mursia, (SPAIN)
2005 Vienna Art Fair, personal stand to Franco Toselli Gallery, Vienna, (AUSTRIA)
2005 Milano Flash Art Fair, Hotel Executive – stand Franco Toselli, Gallery, Milan
2005 Arco Madrid, stand galleria t20 Artecontemporaneo, (SPAIN)
2005 Bologna Flash Art Fair, personal show stand, Bologna
2004 Artissima 11 Art Fair, stand Franco Toselli Gallery, Turin
2002 Artissima 09 Art Fair, stand Franco Toselli Gallery, Turin
2002 Art Forum Berlin, stand Toselli Gallery, Berlin, (GERMANY)

David e Golia, 2002/2009 | mix media, 30 x 10 x 10 cm | Euro 3,600
Christies/Crisi , 2009 | mix media, neon, 110 x 32 x 15cm | Euro 7.200
Jet-sus, 2005 | mix media, 30 x 47 cm |Euro 3.600

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Christies/Crisi , 2009 | mix media, neon 110 x 32 x 15 cm

Jet-sus, 2005 | mix media, 30 x 47 cm

David e Golia, 2002/2009 | mix media, 30 x 10 x 10 cm