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GALLERIA DELL'ARCO, SHANGHAI
opening: april 9th 2010
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Galleria dell'Arco is pleased to announce the opening of the personal exhibition of Francesco De Grandi, the artist's first solo show in Asia.
Francesco De Grandi, born in Palermo in 1968, has already established himself as one of the most relevant figures in Italian figurative painting scene. His paintings have been shown in Europe and USA.
This time to Shanghai, Francesco De Grandi brings with him a new body of work. A series of oil paintings, permeated with a subtle tone of reminiscence, unfolds into an assorted anthology of personal tales.
In every mansion of consciousness, there is an attic to which the debris of our living find their ways. These images, cluttered in disarray, are hinting at some memories one would otherwise have forgotten. Painting in this case, still a craft of imitating objects becomes a form of the most intimate diary-writing, recording not the happenings in the physical world, but their mnemonic projections.
The artist calls it 'compulsive hoarding', a personality disorder that compels the amassing of one's belongings. Then the predestined personal touch of the painter displaces concepts such as genre, season or style. If painting exists as an end in itself, then there is no obligation to justify its presence, no anxiety of whether or not being 'contemporary', and no embarrassment of being announced 'dead'.
INFO
2/F, No. 1 Building, 50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai, China
hours: every day from 10 am to 6 pm
tel/fax +86 21 52527164; shanghai@dearco.it
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艾可画廊
开幕：2010年4月9号下午5点
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艾可画廊很荣幸能够举办弗朗西斯科的个人画展，这是艺术家在亚洲的第一次个展。
弗朗西斯德格朗蒂生于巴勒莫，1968年，他在意大利的具象绘画领域确立了显著的地位，并且在欧洲和美国都进行了巡展。
这次来上海，弗朗西斯带来了新作品，一整个系列的油画，一个充满怀旧的微妙语气展现出充满个人故事的文集。
在每一个意识的大厦，都有一个阁楼，储存着我们自己的生活方式。这些图像，混乱散布，暗示着否则有可能被遗忘的记忆。绘画在这种情况下，仍是一个模仿对象的工艺，成为最亲密的日记写作形式，不是记录在现实世界发生的事情，而是记忆的投影。
这位艺术家说，这是“强迫性囤积”，一个人格障碍，迫使人去积聚。然后，画家天生的方式取代了流派，季节和风格。如果画作为目的本身而存在，那么就没有义务来证明它的存在，不用焦虑是不是被定为“当代”，也不因被宣布“死亡”而尴尬。
地址：上海市莫干山路 50号（M50艺术创意园区） 1号楼2楼
展览时间 4月9日-5月15日
营业时间 上午10点---下午6点
联系方式 电话/传真 021-52527164 E-mail：shanghai@dearco.it