Football Portraits, collective show of modern and contemporary art, will be presented Friday, June 11 at 18.00 at the Gallery Frascione of Via Maggio in Florence.
The exhibition, which runs until July 31, brings together ten works, in which the protagonist is the game of football, made by famous Italian and foreign artists.
Federico, Sasha and Alex, the young owners of Frascione Gallery, opened last September with the intention to continue the work of art collecting started by his grandfather Vittorio, have designed this exhibition to celebrate the Italian football and the spirit of unity that distinguishes Italians during the World Cup.
The date chosen for the opening match, in fact, with the beginning of the nineteenth edition of the World Cup to be played in South Africa.
Among the works that will be on display stands an oil, nitro and collage entitled "Footballer" conducted by Renato Guttuso in 1965, coming from his studio in Via Condotti. The Sicilian artist from the sixties approached the topic of football will help explain the Italian society through sporting subjects. In 1982 to celebrate the victory of the Italian World Cup in Spain, has made Guttuso Rhythms of players.
The exhibition will also host two paintings Frank'O, Argentinean artist now settled in Florence: El 10, oil on canvas depicting Diego Armando Maradona, and Pasion Fortinera.
Players are always the subject of three works in the exhibition of Greek artist Mina Papatheodorou Valyraki, one of which entitled Football painted during the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 and used in the official calendar of the "Olympic Games". THERE Will also be, the artist Lorenzo Perrone, famous for his series of Libri Bianchi, which has created an evocative work of the same series called Goal, the Florentine emerging photographer Olivia Magris with three photographs that have as their subject the official World Cup ball in South Africa.
Mina Papatheodorou Valyrakis: Born in Athens in Greece where he studied painting at the School of Fine Arts of the Supreme National Technical University. In 1986, ending his Ph.D. at the University of Florence. His works are exhibited at the National Gallery of
Athens, the UN building in New York, at the UNESCO Collection of Paris and many other important sites. Sport has always characterized the artist's production, which in 2001 was proclaimed Artist of Sports from 2002 to 2004 by the "Sports Academy in 2004 and received by the President of the Italian Republic Award of Guirlande Honeur" for His creations focused on the sporting activity.
Frank'O: Born in 1974 in Argentina where he completed the first studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires. In 1998 he moved to Florence, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts The artist has participated in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including one report "Artevariarte" the first solo exhibition in 2004 in Florence and unconfined-art built in 2009 in Athens.
Lorenzo Perrone: Born in 1944 in Milan. Following several art courses in Milan and New York. For about eight years realizes White Papers, turning books into real objects with no title, author and content. During his career participating in exhibitions in Milan, Florence, Naples, Bologna, Paris.
Olivia Magris: Born in Florence on 3/3/1979 by Austrian mother and Florentine father, both known architects. After an adolescence spent in Florence, she decided to continue studying abroad, specifically in Vienna, where she attended classes in the Angewandte Kunst and later in London at the Inchbald School of Design, where she completed her studies successfully. Gets the Inchbald Award for the originality of projects and after a long training in an architectural firm (WHERE?) And moved to NY. Affected by the lights, colors, and energy expressed by people from the metropolis, is thanks to photography, that she capture and retain all these emotions. Now lives in Madrid where she surrounds herself with activities such as designing furniture, household items and indulge her passion for photography.
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