Francesco Calistri

Francesco Calistri's work is based on painting and drawing, and is supported by an enduring interest in theatrical, sculptural and photographic practices. In his artistic work, portraiture predominates, as well as the psycho-spiritual focus of the interaction of color on the human soul.

Over time, the pictorial language has asserted itself as an inner dream vision, which is no longer interested in the probable "descriptivism" of the whole figure, but rather, through greater freedom of expression, often emphasizes a detail of reality by making it become the creator of a world.

EXHIBITIONS

2024

Personal exhibition "Paper Dreams", Spazio Forno, Rome.

Group exhibition Premio Firenze XL, Palazzo Bastogi, Florence.

Collective exhibition “100 artists in villa" Villa Contarini, Padua.

Collective exhibition NucleikArt gallery, Catania.

Collective exhibition Tobian Art Gallery, Florence.

2023

Collective exhibition at the Ghiggini gallery, Varese.

Publication of the photography book "Fotosintesi. 96 polaroid di Primavera".

Collective exhibition Premio Viviani, Villa Brivio, Nova Milanese.

Collective exhibition “Cavalli di Battaglia" at Galleria Il Leone, Rome.

Collective exhibition at the Galleria Vittoria, Rome.

Collective exhibition at Studio d'Arte 99, Pavia.

Relocation to Rome.

2022

Premio Satura 2022 Genoa.

“Artefiera Genova" with the Satura gallery.

2021

Acquisition price Malamegi lab.19.

Art exhibition Malamegi Lab.19 to 28 Piazza di Pietra, Rome.

Exhibition "Hirdilak & Chris Cann" at Studio d'Arte 99, Pavia.

Exhibition Biennale art London.

Emerging prize for painting at the Genoa Biennale.

Exhibition at the Genoa Art Biennale.

Online exhibition with the artist Alessandra Guttagliere: “L'Indomabile".

2nd place at the Yicca art 20/21 prize, Milan.

2020

Award-winning artist at SaturARTE 2020, Genoa.

Collective exhibition "fortress in art" at the Medici fortress of Montepulciano (Siena).

Abandonment and renunciation of further studies at the Brera Academy in Milan.

2019

Registration and attendance at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.

Personal exhibition at the Bong Firenze studio.

Group exhibition at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries in London.

Collective exhibition at the Arthill gallery in London.

Collective exhibition "art at palazzo fantuzzi" at the Farini gallery in Bologna.

Before 2019

Personal exhibition for Pistoia, capital of culture at the ancient church of San Biagio (2017).

Collective exhibition "Adam and Eve" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence (2017).

Diploma from DAMS in Florence (2014).

Participation in the European artistic project "Nostoi stories of returns and exoduses" in Italy and Tunisia (2013/15).

Diploma in “actor and stage artist" at Laboratorio9 Florence (2013).