ARCHEOLOGIE
Autore: biografia sintetica e opere | Author: brief biography and main works
Franco Guerzoni
Franco Guerzoni (Modena, 1948), artist, has focused since the early Seventies
on producing works that recount a personal exploration of the world of archaeology,
concentrating in particular on the stratifications of culture and the ideal of the
“antique” as loss and absence. He adopts precise systems for representing images,
also using photography, while continually referencing the work of his contemporaries
(including Vaccari, Parmiggiani and Ghirri). In the Eighties he produced large paper
wall hangings investigating the idea of an imaginary geography (Carte di viaggio,
Grotteschi and La parete dimenticata), while in 1990 he presented his Decorazioni e
rovine project in a personal exhibition at the Biennale in Venice. Since the Nineties, he
has produced large cycles of works which continue his investigation of time and the
poetics of ruins, with an interpretative approach that creates a kind of “archaeology
with no restoration”. Since 2006 he has transferred his painting to walls themselves,
nourishing the idea of a form of “mural” painting that pursues the relationship with
space, architecture and time, using pigment as a tool for revelation, discovery and
the expression of memory, a strong presence that emerges almost lyrically from the
white surface.
Carta di viaggio
1983
Tecnica mista
su carta
Combination of
techniques on paper
47 x 62 cm
Museo ideale
2011
Tecnica mista su carta,
scagliola e filo di rame
Combination of
techniques on board,
and scagliola plasters
and copper wire
134 x 94 cm
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