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Biography
Francesco Parisi was born in Rome in 1972. He studied at the
Accademia di Belle Arti where he first encountered the works of William
Blake and Francesco Mazzola. His first one man exhibition was during
1995, at the Gallery Guy in Paris. Later he returned to Italy and
deepened his study of wood-engraving technique. In his paintings and
engravings between 1998 and 2002 we see an exploration of the themes and
subjects relating to Dionysus. In 2002 Emanuel Bardazzi curated an
exhibition of Parisi’s prints at the Gabinetto delle Stampe of the
Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Cagliari. In the
same year he gained a grant for engraving at the Kultur-Institute Villa
Romana Florenz in Florence – once the studio home of the German engraver
Max Klinger. Between 2001 and 2004 personal exhibitions followed in
Italy and abroad.
In 2005 a catalogue raisonné of Francesco’s engraved work was
published, edited by Arianna Mercanti and with a preface by Maria Teresa
Benedetti. In 2006 the artist moved to New York for one year where he
taught wood-engraving technique at the Centre for the Book Arts, while
preparing for an exhibition at the Caelum Gallery.
Francesco writes regularly and is the author of essays and articles
in specialised magazines and catalogues on Italian and European graphic
art of the early nineteenth century. He has curated national exhibitions
and written accompanying publications for museums and private art
galleries in the Italy. His prints may be found in the collections of
the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des estampes et de la
photographie, Paris; the Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp; and the
British Museum, Departments of Prints and Drawings, London. He is
currently Professor of Printmaking at the University of Fine Arts, Rome
and at Accademia di Belle Arti di Foggia.
