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I cannot assess to what extent the color of the artwork in the two-dimensional reproduction is relevant to that of the original three-dimensional work.
As the subject moves away, I am able to perceive it more clearly in its entirety, while it disappears to make way for its narrative. This relates both the color of the original object and that of its pictorial revision.”
Francesco De Prezzo’s work examines some experiential concepts of artistic production, exploring how objects and artworks interact with our vision. His approach is characterized by subverting the nature of the image,
destroying the pictorial representation with overlapping layers of erasures and abrasions. This process progressively transforms the subject of the painting, originally figurative, into a monochromatic and undefined
image field. Many of his interventions challenge the boundaries between illusion, expectation, and perception.
It is the spectators who make the paintings”, said Duchamp, echoing a phrase that must be related to the intuition of an emergency of the culture of use for which meaning arises from collaboration and a negotiation between the
artist and the one who comes to see the work. Because couldn’t the meaning of a work also come from its multiple images, and not only from the physical object suggested by the artist?
The images of sculpture can change the way we perceive sculpture, to the point of participating in it, distorting it, bending it under new perspectives and meanings attributed.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence. The development of photography in the mid-nineteenth century allowed us to see reality in new ways. At the same time, times were changing, and with the advent of the avant-gardes, it became
increasingly urgent to overcome any traditional representation of the world. With abstraction, we deny for the first time even that art can represent visible reality. This is an important and irreversible step.
Every time we take a photo, in some way, we decide what shape we want to give to what we see. We are creating it again.
We perceive reality on a daily basis with the same precision with which it unfolds in our line of sight. In this way, the representation obtained of the physical world is notexactly the same as that perceived through the senses.
The perception of the emerging world is defined as distal stimuli, or perceived physical objects, enriched with information from the external environment, such as light, shape, color, and other available inputs.
(...) “Between painting that goes beyond time and multi-dimensional spaces, the artistic research of Francesco De Prezzo is continuously looking for a new balance, antagonizing the idea of status quo by concealing it.
His research swings between creation and deconstruction: rules and pedantic processes are wrapped up in the idea of cancellation. The annulment generates a new pictorial language that reflects on the idea of painting and its destruction.
De Prezzo subverts the usual modus operandi, according to which, the colour coating works as image background.”
Domenico De Chirico
(...) “Re-cognition notoriously marks the transition from ignorance to knowledge. Recognising, therefore, is not the same as coming into contact for the first time, nor does it need words: Recognition is almost always mute.
And recognising does not in any way mean understanding, as understanding has no role in the act of Recognition. The most important aspect of the term “re-cognition” therefore lies in the first syllable, which refers to something that
comes before, a pre-existing awareness that makes the transition from ignorance to knowledge possible. Recognition occurs when an earlier awareness flashes before us, causing a sudden change in our understanding.
And yet that flash cannot happen spontaneously; it cannot flare up without its lost other. Therefore, the resulting knowledge is different from discovering something new; instead, it derives from becoming aware of yet unexpressed potential. ”
Andrea Lerda
CV
b. 1994
solo
2025 >upc: Solo show, LOOM Gallery, [Milan] IT
2023 >Placeholder Sculptures, FORM, [Wageningen/Amsterdam], NL
2022 >Kill the reference, Nighttimestory, [Los Angeles] , USA
2021 >Al limite del visibile, LOOM Gallery, [Milan] IT
2019 >Portraits of a room, Falsefront, [Portland] US
2018 >Represent, palazzo Monti residency program [Brescia] IT
2016 >Null Paintings, LOOM Gallery, [Milan] IT
2016 >There was here first, Musil Foundation [Brescia] IT
2016 >Francesco De Prezzo, Raum 116” Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, [Düsseldorf] DE
group
2025
>upc: Group show at HEART – Herning Museum of Contemporary Art [Herning], DK
2024
>ASIT (The Production of Space) Group exhibition at Shelter, Ghent.F
with: Aaron Daem, Bahati Simoens, Bjorn Kerkhof, Leydt De Noodt, Evelyn Vanoverbeke, Felix Fasolt, Francesco De Prezzo, Joselito Verschaeve, Lieve Shukrani Simoens,
Lisa Ijeoma, Lydia Rigaux, Max Kesteloot, Maarten Inghels, Niels Raoul Boone, Olivier Goethals, Willem Boel.
Curated by Lieve Shukrani Simoens & Felix Fasolt
>HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, [Herning], DK
>Fundación Bienal de Cuenca 2024, Cuenca, EC
>Blind Taste, group show [Lisbon], PT
with: Ada, Alexandre Camarao, Alexandre Farto (Vhils), Andrew Birk, Bárbara Faden, Beatriz Capitulé, Chris Hood, Conny Maier, Erris Huigens, Fábio Colaço,
Fabio Viscogliosi, Filipe André Alves, Fernando Travassos, Francesco De Prezzo, Franigisga Jardim, Fredrik Åkum, Germes Gang, Gonçalo Preto, Henrique Pavão,
Horácio Frutuoso, Inês Raposo, Isabel Cordovil, Joana Coelho, Kaspar Oppen Samuelsen, Laura Gaetano, Lulú, Luísa Salvador, Madalena Hipólito, Mantraste,
Matt Mignanelli, Miguel Flor, Nuno Patrício, Paulo Arraiano, Paulo Lisboa, Pedro Barateiro, Pedro Batista, Pedro O Novo, Rita Paisana, Roger Paulino, Rudi Brito,
Rui Gueifão, Sara & André, Struan Teague, Timothy Hull, Wolfgang Voegele, Yorgos Stakopoulos.
2023
>Artissima, Loom gallery, [Turin], IT
with: Jonathan Monk, Willy De Sauter, Jan Dibbets, Vadim Fishkin, Paul Gees, Benjamin Jones, Antoine Langenieux Villard, Ignacio Uriarte, Francesco De Prezzo
>Positions, Saon 75, [Copenaghen], DK
with: Jan Domicz, Federica Francesconi, Francesco De Prezzo
>Looks like paintings, MOTT Projects, Castskill, [New York], US
with: Moritz Neuhoff, Christopher Wool, Felix Gonzales Torres, Josh Reames, Francesco De Prezzo, Olve Sande, Théodore Géricault
>Miart, Loom gallery, [Milan] IT
with: Robert Barry, Stanley Brouwn, Christo, Francesco De Prezzo, Willy De Sauter, Jan Dibbets, Paul Gees, Dan Graham, Benjamin Jones,
Jonathan Monk, Helmut Newton, Fred Sandback, Giacomo Balla, Ian Wilson
>Under Raffaello, Galleria Civica Urbino, [Urbino], IT e
with: Lorenzo Tonda, Vittorio Valiante, Giuseppe Vassallo, Maria Giovanna Zanella, Samuele Pigliapochi, Nicola Bindoni, Giulia (Pasa) Frascari, Miriana Lallo,
Nicola Vincenzo Piscopo, Elia Mauceri, Greta Pllana, Angela D’Ospina, Giulia Osella, Francesco De Prezzo, Silvia Paci, Leonardo Gambini, Jacopo Ginanneschi,
Mattia Barbalaco, Erica Conti, Davide Quartucci, Lorenzo Tonda, Matteo Messori, Giulia Mangoni, Edoardo Cialfi, Giuseppe Sciortino, Dario Nanì, Rachele Frison,
Chiara Calore, Gaia Gasparetto, Luca Rubegni, Elisabetta Marino, Giuseppe Vassallo
2022
>Artissima, Loom gallery, [Turin] IT
with: Jonathan Monk, Willy De Sauter, Paul Gees, Helmut Newton, Ignacio Uriarte, Francisco Ugarte, Francesco De Prezzo
2021
>Twilight object, Pas Une Orange, [Barcelona] ES
with: Jason Dodge, Haris Epaminonda, Nicolás Lamas, Lasse Schmidt Hansen, Maarten Van Roy, Francesco De Prezzo
Text by Aurélien Le Genissel
>Super Hall, Magma Maria [Offenbach] DE
with: Nicola Lorini, Valerian Goalec, Francesco De Prezzo, Federica Francesconi
>4 Frogs, DUM project space, [Ljubljana] SVN
with: Marco Andrea Magni, Benjamin Jones, Francesco De Prezzo
>X minimal, Cassina Projects, [Milan] IT
with: John M. Armleder, Monica Bonvicini, Heimo Zobernig, Francesco de Prezzo, N. Dash, Olivier Mosset, Alicja Kwade, Beth Letain, Martin Boyce, Valentin Carron, Andrew Dadson
Philippe Decrauzat, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Manuel Fois, Liam Gillick, Fernanda Gomes, Francesco João, Tarik Kiswanson, Meuser, Gerold Miller, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Monika Sosnowska
Blair Thurman, Tatiana Trouvé, Franz Erhard Walther
2020
>Transatlantico, Palazzo Monti collection at Mana Contemporary, [New York] US
with: Alicia Adamerovich, Alessandro Alghisi, Becky Allen, Ludovica Anversa, Josefina Ayllón, Tine Bek, Ilaria Bianchi, Andrea Bocca, Bea Bonafini, Liene Bosquê,
Thomas Braida, Linda Carrara, Ambra Castagnetti, Franco Cervi, Holly Chang, Paul Chapellier, Matheus Chiaratti, Heather Chontos, Marie Geneviève Cyr, Stefano De Paolis,
Francesco De Prezzo, Federica Di Carlo, Allessandro Di Pietro, Meta Drčar, Benjamin Duax, Charlotte Edey, Peter Evans, Ellen Falcucci-Lear, Nick Farhi, Emma Fineman,
Serena Fineschi, Antonio Fiorentino, Hannah Fox, Maria Fragoso, Anna Freeman Bentley, Maya Fuhr, Albert Riera Galceran, Oscar Giaconia, Jeffrey Gibson,
Jane Hayes Greenwood, Heather Guertin, Hwi Hahm, Constantin Hartenstein, Alberto Torres Hernandez, Christian Hincapie, Cathrin Hoffmann, Howard Heidi, Henry Hussey,
Angelo Iodice, Samuel Jablon, Joseph Jagos, Lucas Jardin, Laurel Johannesson, Martin Kazanietz, Gabriel Kenny-Ryder, Osamu Kobayashi, Jean-Francois Le Minh,
Sergio Romero Linares, Brandon Lipchick, Giuseppe Lo Schiavo, Francesca Longhini, Chella Man, Michelle Marshall, MaryV, Luam Melake, Beatrice Modisett,
Jonathan Monaghan, Matthew Morrocco, Müsing–Sellés, Juan Nazar, Guido Nosari, Erin O’Brien, Nadia Odlum, Tyler Matthew Oyer, Roberto Patella, Pedro Pedreira,
Leonardo Pellicanò, Alessandro Piangiamore, Roberto Picchi, Oren Pinhassi, Emily Platzer, Gianni Politi, Genevieve Felix Reynolds, Davide Ronco, Kara Rooney,
Nick Rose, Gideon Rubin, Andreas Senoner, Lara Shahnavaz, Logan T. Sibrel, Alan Silvestri, Ernesto Solana, Sophie Spedding, Caroll Taveras, Amalia Valdés,
Leonardo Anker Vandal, Filip Vest, Isabelle Young, Alexis Zambrano
>Spazio Leonardo, Assicurazioni Generali di Milano, [Milan] IT
with:Vasilis Papageorgiou, Francesco De Prezzo, Irene Fenara, Osamu Kobayashi, Filippo Minelli, Simone Monsi, Andreia Santana, Stefano Serretta,
Thomas Berra, Elia Cantori
>Francesco De Prezzo/Benjamin Jones, Loom Gallery Miart, [Milan] IT
with: Francesco De Prezzo, Benjamin Jones
>Silence is so accurate, curated by Lien Craps, Geukens & De Vil, [Antwerp] BEL
with:Matthew Allen, Anna-Eva Bergman, Jean-Baptiste Besançon, Lucia Bru, Francesco De Prezzo, Marco De Sanctis, Ayan Farah,Matthew Feyld, Per Kesselmar, Nika Neelova,
Benjamin Sabatier, Günter Umberg, Pieter Vermeersch, Christoph Weber, John Zurier
2019
>Ibrida 2, Castello di Perno, [Monfote d’ Alba] IT
with: Emanuele Becheri, Letizia Cariello, CCH, Michele Chiossi, Michelangelo Consani, Fabrizio Cotognini, Enrico David, Francesco De Prezzo, Marco De Sanctis,
Maurizio Donzelli, Michele Guido, Francesca Longhini, Michela Nosiglia, Giovanni Ozzola, Davide Rivalta, Adrian Rover, Andrea Santarlasci, Nina Silla
>Trauma, la Marignana, [Venice] IT
with: Giuseppe Adamo, Stijn Ank, Steven Cox, Silvia Infranco, Francesco De Prezzo, Maurizio Donzelli, Serena Fineschi, Anne Laure Sacriste, Roy Thurston
> Homeworks, Spazio Tripla, [Bologna] IT
2017
>Francesco De Prezzo, Pierre Etienne Morelle, Louise Reith, Miart 2017, [Milan] IT
with: Francesco De Prezzo, Pierre Etienne Morelle, Louise Reith
>Biennale, LOOM Gallery [Milan] IT
with: Vadim Fishki,Ignacio Uriarte, Patrick Angus, Clemens Behr, Andreas Burger, Francesco De Prezzo, Francesca Longhini, Marco Andrea Magni, Pierre-Etienne Morelle,
Louis Reith
2016
>Aequilibrium, LOOM gallery [Milan] IT
with:Ariel Schlesinger, Francesco De Prezzo, Ignacio Ubriarte, Nicola Ballarini
>Premio Michetti, Fondazione Michetti, [Francavilla al mare] IT
with: Francesco Arecco, Aris, Renato Calaj, Domenico Carella, Enrico Cazzaniga, Sonya Clark, Francesco De Prezzo, Bruno Di Bello, Nicola Evangelisti, Raul Gabriel,
Cesare Galluzzo, Albano Morandi, Marica Moro, Giancarlo Norese, Mattia Novello, Giovanni Padovese, Piero Paladini, Lorena Pedemonte Tarodo, Francesco Pedrini,
Alice Pedroletti, Gian Paolo Roffi, Alessandro Rosa, Giovanni Sabatini, Valdi Spagnulo, Dora Tass e August Muth, Alessandro Traina, Davide Tranchina, Maria Wasilewska
>group show, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, AT
>70° edizione Premio Lissone 2016, M.A.C. [Lissone-Milan] IT
with:Francesco De Prezzo, Paolo Icaro, Nicola Samorì, Vincenzo Agnetti, Bertozzi & Casoni, Matteo Fato, Giorgio Griffa, Anton S. Kehrer, Tiziano Martini
Piero Manai, Paolo Minoli, Aldo Mondino, Robert Pan, Perino & Vele, Aldo Tagliaferro, Marco Tirelli, Gianfranco Zappettini, Marco Neri, Eugenia Vanni,
Danilo Buccella, Flavio De Marco, Ian Tweedy, Luigi Presicce, Maurizio Cannavacciuolo, Mario Ceroli, Paola Angelini, Gunter Fruhtrunk, Sophie Ko,
Osamu Kobayashi,Omar Ba, Paolo Brambilla, Lorenza Boisi, Kaye Donachie, Serena Gamba, Gaspare, Luca Grechi, Adi Haxhiaj, Benedikt Hipp, Simon Laureyns,
Christopher Michlig, Adriano Nasuti-Wood, Giovanni Oberti, Stefanie Popp, Erik Saglia, Dadamaino, Gabriele Devecchi, Antonio Scaccabarozzi
2015
>Akademie-Galerie – Die Neue Sammlung [Düsseldorf] DE
>Spatial Perceptions, Latin
publications
>Francesco De Prezzo “PLACEHOLDERS”, publication, 2024, 56 pages, COLOUR, Edition: 200, Pub: Loom Gallery [Milan] IT
>Francesco De Prezzo “MOCKUPS PAINTINGS”, publication, 2023, 108 pages, COLOUR, Edition: 300, Pub: Loom Gallery [Milan] IT
>Francesco De Prezzo “Maybe there is a substitute for experience”, publication, 2022, 604 pages, B/W, Edition: 30, Pub: Loom Gallery [Milan] IT
>Francesco De Prezzo “29 ways to destroy a painting”, publication, 2022, 92 pages, COLOUR, Edition: 200, Pub: Loom Gallery [Milan] IT
>Francesco De Prezzo “SUBJECTS”, publication, 2021, 100 pages, COLOUR, Edition: 40, Pub: Loom Gallery [Milan] IT
>Francesco De Prezzo “Portraits of a room”, publication, 2019, 120 pages, COLOUR, Edition: 100, Pub: False Front [Portland] US