Francesco Barbieri

untitled, acrylic and collage on canvas, 70×100 cm, 2012

Finally some pics (courtesy of mr Alberto Martini, always there at the right moment!) of the opening of “Controlled Chaos”, the exhibit that i had with Bizarre Dee, Zedz and Linea Piatta at Cantiere San Bernardo in Pisa. We had fun working together and the party had a really cool vibe.
Pretty soon we’ll put online a short video about the making of the whole show. You will like it…

“CONTROLLED CHAOS” is the upcoming group show @ Cantiere San Bernardo in Pisa, featuring Zedz from Amsterdam, Bizarre Dee from Roma, Linea Piatta and little me. The opening will be on friday 7th october.

Me and Bizarre Dee have a rough, funky and sometimes dirty style of painting, while Zedz and Linea Piatta are known for their unmistakable geometrical style; the result is supposed to be a friendly “clash” of different visions from artists with similar backgrounds.
The exhibit is the “indoor” part of the event called RossoVitamina. The “outdoor” part will be at Campo Sportivo Comunale Abetone in Pisa on 8th-9th october where the same artists will perform a wall painting session.
See you there.

“CONTROLLED CHAOS”: opening 7/10/2011 h 19.00, Cantiere San Bernardo, via Pietro Gori, Pisa. The exhibition will last till 14/10/2011 and it will be open h 16.00/20.00

outdoor session (wall painting) 8-9/10/2011 h 15.00 Campo Sportivo Comunale Abetone, via Bonanno Pisano 2, Pisa

info: www.rossovitamina.it

The exhibition “In LIBER-tà Libri d’artista Percorsi tra esperienze storiche e ricerche contemporanee” is still goin on (till 23rd october). You can check all the artist’s books in the four different locations hosting the exhibition: SMS- Centro Espositivo Museale San Michele degli Scalzi,Viale delle Piagge, Pisa Studio Gennai, Via San Bernardo 6, Pisa Edizioni ETS, Piazza Carrara 16-19, Pisa Biblioteca Universitaria, Via Curtatone e Montanara 15, Pisa. Meanwhile i can show you some pictures of my artwork (courtesy of Alberto Martini) and some pictures of the vernissage at Studio Gennai (courtesy of Dania Gennai).

This thing is deeply fascinating. As you probably already know there’s a whole tradition out there of artists doing their own books. These books are true artworks in their deepest meaning: often we are talking about unique pieces or very limited-exclusive editions. The most different materials, forms and techniques get used to produce these pieces: the only basic rule is to stick to the concept of book or, in other words, the book has to be intended as a work of art in itself.

I got into it through my friend Delio Gennai who is organizing the upcoming group show “In LIBER-tà Libri d’artista Percorsi tra esperienze storiche e ricerche contemporanee” in our beloved hometown Pisa: sometimes ago he asked me to do a piece for the exhibition. I had such a good time doing this that i ended up doing three pieces. Two of them will be shown in the exhibition and the third one you can see it in those pictures. Of course artist’s books are pretty different from what i usually do, but i think it’s really “healthy” to get out of your little comfort zone every now and then.
If you’re in Pisa from 17th september till 23rd october you absolutely have to check the show, which is gonna be pretty much interesting: it’s located in four different places and it hosts the books of a lot of different artists.

SMS- Centro Espositivo Museale San Michele degli Scalzi,Viale delle Piagge, Pisa
Studio Gennai, Via San Bernardo 6, Pisa
Edizioni ETS, Piazza Carrara 16-19, Pisa
Biblioteca Universitaria, Via Curtatone e Montanara 15, Pisa

These are the spaces hosting the show. The first vernissages will be Sat. 17th september at SMS (h 17.00) and at Studio Gennai (h 19.00). I’ll keep you updated about the further vernissages at ETS and Biblioteca Universitaria.

Some pics from the exhibition “Cosmic Floating” at Dispenser Milano Gallery, plus the video of the painting i did on the outside wall.

The idea of the wall was about bringin back the concept of my series of paintings “Street Crumbs”; i just tried to adapt it at the wallpainting thing: i didn’t past any paper but did everything with acrylic and spray paint to give the illusion of the ripped shreds of paper. It’s not the first time i do this kind of work, which is different from the traditional graffiti i used to do on walls: i’ll talk about this further and add few pics.

The opening was a nice and relaxed evening and i was happy cause few friends i haven’t seen in ages showed up to say hallo and share some beers.

COSMIC FLOATING by FRANCESCO BARBIERI from DISPENSER milano on Vimeo.

DISPENSER MILANO opens my new solo exhibition on friday 20th of May at 19.00 pm.

“COSMIC FLOATING” will feature all the new paintings and some other stuff, plus a site specific intervention on the exterior wall. Fritz Da Cat, a well known name of the hiphop underground scene, will perform at the vernissage.
The exhibit will last till 26th of May (call 0245470032 or 3939312922).

See you at DISPENSER MILANO, Viale Faenza 12-5 ( MM Famagosta or Romolo; bus 67-95).

more info:
dispensermilano.blogspot.com
flickr.com/dispensermilano
dispensermilano@yahoo.com.

Whenever i’m in the mood i like to sneak into some crazy abandoned building to snap few pics with my old trusty Olympus Mju II: it used to be one of the most famous analogic compact cameras around 10 years ago. It’s a really easy and quick to use camera and i still like it because it allows to do some nice and warm shots. If you walk along the tracks or other similar places you can find some cool rusty object like these. I don’t need to say that this kind of feeling insipired my series of paintings “suburban blues”

I did a bunch of drawings like these for a collaboration with the notorious vj Blanche.
She mixed them all together and the result was a psychedelic video. Hopefully i’ll post a sample of the video here soon or later.

Hello everybody this is my new web page…I’ll try to post about the art projects i’m currently involved and also something about past events and works. I still have to upload some pics from the solo show i had in Pisa few months ago. Here we go…