Francesco Gennari

Francesco Gennari is an Italian artist born in Fano in 1973. He currently lives and works in Pesaro and Milan. Gennari's work is based on a minimalist and metaphysical approach, which draws from a cosmology of different mediums such as Murano glass, bronze, marble, gin, and mint syrup. His work is characterized by conceptual consistency, and he selects mediums based on their inherent specificities, rather than their outward appearance. His work is an embodiment of the invisible, which is made visible by the artist, and he materializes it into organic and material objects.

Gennari has won several awards for his work, including the ACACIA Prize for Contemporary Art in 2009 and the MoMA PS1 award in 2002-2003. His recent solo exhibitions include "Sta arrivando il temporale / The Storm is Coming" at GAMeC in Bergamo (2019-2020), "Transcript" at Galerie Stadtpark in Krems (2016), "Francesco Gennari" at Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna in Turin (2015), and "Francesco Gennari" at Museo Marino Marini in Florence (2014).

Gennari's work has also been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions, such as "Italia: Between Longing and Mass Tourism" at Kunstmuseum Winterthur in Winterthur (2022), "Fuori" at Quadriennale di Roma at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome (2020), "Joint is out of Time" at La Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome (2019), and "Noi e il MASI. Donazione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati" at Museo d’Arte Lugano in Lugano (2018).

Gennari's work is held in several collections, including the CNAP Centre national des arts plastiques in Paris, the Deutsche Bank Collection, the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, the Collezione Giancarlo e Dana Olgiati in Lugano, the FRAC Corse in Corte, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, and the Kunstmuseum Winterthur.