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The temple for the locals is a project that The Farm Margaret River commissioned in 2020. Based on the cross section of the
Balga tree (Grass tree)
I’ve generated 8 columns as a symbol of an old ancient ruin of a temple;
it is a place where to be and contemplate our own depth. https://www.thefarmmargaretriver.com.au/francescogeronazzo
We have created a cosy, rustic and intimate workspace to share ideas and take you on a printmaking journey.
Our studio provides you with all the tools and equipment to create something that you will treasure forever!
With direct access to Francesco Geronazzo’s knowledge your options are limitless.
We have created a cosy, rustic and intimate workspace to share ideas and take you on a printmaking journey.
Our studio provides you with all the tools and equipment to create something that you will treasure forever!
With direct access to Francesco Geronazzo’s knowledge your options are limitless.
This exhibition was made possible by “Scuola di Arti e mestieri” Suzzara, Italy. It is manly an archive of shapes I’ve collecting, getting inspired from, used then as subjects for my research. The 3D art piece won the II° Prize in Bilbao at the FIGBilbao 2013.
Species it’s been a project that I’ve done on my first way back from Australia. I’ve collecting species and working with them back in Ozz; once in Italy, with Italian species I’ve done this body of works for MIRO Architetti in Bologna.
This is just a section where I keep posting the shapes I’m working on. It is a section that tends to change quite often. I personally love working with 3d shapes and volumes.
Studio Carlotta Pesce is pleased to present an outstanding example of synergism between art and business: a Bologna-based company, Essse Caffè, invited a young artist, Francesco Geronazzo, of Venetian origins but living and working in the Emilia region in Northern Italy, to create a project specially designed for the recently restored historic headquarters of the family-owned Segafredo coffee roasting business, in via Galliera, Bologna.
The company’s history and the artist’s life experience intertwine and overlap right from the title of the exhibition project: ROOTS – intended as symbolic elements that evoke the concept of origin, of a starting point. Coffee grounds, personally recovered by the artist at the factory, create tonal variations in a set of small sculptures: delicate organic shapes created from casts of roots that the artist gathered in Australia. The experience of living in Australia was a turning point in the personal and artistic life of the author and possibly a place where to put down his roots.
Fragments of natural elements such as a seed shape, a stone or small shrubs, often recur in Francesco Geronazzo’s art. The artist, through an extremely personal use of ancient printmaking techniques, creates intensely poetic images, consisting of one-of-a-kind, unique, original and deliberately imperfect items – to emphasise the hands-on and craft-like dimension of his work. In his research work, the art of printmaking, sculpture and installation combine in a single poetic vision, mingling natural elements and life memories – in a slow, archaic process in stark contrast to the image production and reproduction options allowed by modern technology.
Next to the sculptures, coffee plant impressions on lightweight, recycled paper, and ground coffee used as a pigment together with roasting waste, characterise two other monotype prints of a circle on crude linen – a design at the same time inspired by the shape of the coffee containers at the historic roasting factory and a symbol of perfection, harmony, and infinity. Once again, the artist created a deliberately imperfect image that suggests the unpredictability and transience of natural elements.
This is the Studio we have in Italy, on the hills in between Bologna and Florence. Feel free to contact me if you would like to book a period of time for exploring your own practice while living in an amazing isolate neck of the world.
NeoNature is project generated by Margaret River Gallery and me after the first year in Australia. It’s a body of works on paper and fabric.
The first time I showed the Balga cores. Since then they have always part of my research, the ancient side of them really attract me.
InFormaDiSegno it’s been an exhibition at Adiacenze in Bologna, Italy in 2010. The body of works presented it’s about nature and its shapes. The techniques used are mainly monotype and woodcut even though one of the pieces it’s made out of soil and natural glue and it aims to be like an environmental art piece .
