Francesca (xx Sec.) Forcella Biography
Francesca Forcella (1974 - ) was born in 1974 in Atri (TE), lives and works in Turin. She graduated from the Art School of Pescara and then began her academic career at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Chieti. Francesca Forcella creates paintings in which we see portraits of ordinary people, kids chatting with each other, smoking, having fun. Looking more carefully, however, we discover that each character is painted on black cardboard cut out along the edges as if it were a silhouette, which is then glued onto the white canvas of the painting. In her most recent paintings, Francesca Forcella paints empty rooms and desolate or places and homes that do not contemplate any human presence, perhaps because they are abandoned, or because they are taken from a dream and translated directly onto the canvas. In this sense, the slightly distorted perspective and the deliberately uncertain proportions of the representation would be explained. In fact, the views appear illusory, almost immaterial, and the background confuses and envelops without giving any indication of precise geographical realities. His is a painting that has always been anti-spectacular and conceptual. Forcella's first solo exhibitions date back to 1999, in Pescara, and 2000 in Padua. Over the years there have been numerous exhibitions in various cities in Italy. In 2005 the artist participated in the group exhibition 12 Italian Painters in Turin.
