Franco Fanelli
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Franco Fanelli was born in Rivoli (Turin) in 1959.
Since 1987 he is Professor of Printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin.
From 1995 to 1997 he was Visiting professor of Printmaking at the International School of Graphic Art “Il Bisonte” in Florence
He lives and works in Turin.
His prints are in the collections of GAM - Galleria Civica d’arte moderna e contemporanea of Turin, Museum of Contemporary Art - Villa Croce of Genua and MoMA of New York, Istituto Centrale per la Grafica-Calcografia Nazionale, Rome
Selected exhibitions
Major Solo Show:
1987, “Uncharted”, Galleria Documenta, Turin 1989, “Sibyllae”, Galleria Franco Masoero, Turin 1991, Museo d’arte contemporanea, Genoa;
Unione Culturale “F. Antonicelli”, Palazzo Carignano, Turin
1994, Associazione Culturale “Il Salto del Salmone”, Turin
1995, Galleria Il Bisonte, Florence
1997, Galleria Davico, Turin
2000, Galleria Il Quadrato, Chieri 2004, Galleria dell’Incisione, Brescia
2012, Galleria Simone Aleandri Arte Moderne, Roma e Galleria Colophon, Belluno
2013, Galleria Carte d’Arte, Catania
2016 Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome 2018 Fondazione Federica Galli, Milan
Major Group Show
1985, Giovani Artisti a Torino, Palazzo degli Antichi Chiostri, Turin
1987, Madrid-Torino. Muestra de Arte Joven, Pabellon Villanueva, Madrid
1988, Lovecraftiana, Galleria Tuttagrafica, Turin
1990 and 1994, Premio Internazionale Biella per l’Incisione
1993, The Artist and the Book in XXth Century Italy, Museum of Modern Art, New York