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Franca Pisani (1956 - ) was born in Grosseto in 1956 into a family of artists. At nine years old he attended the studio of the sculptor and painter Alessio Sozzi. Read the full biography

Franca Pisani (1956 - ) was born in Grosseto in 1956 into a family of artists. At nine years old he attended the studio of the sculptor and painter Alessio Sozzi. After his artistic high school diploma he moved to Bologna to further his art studies at the DAMS faculty of literature, directed by Umberto Eco. She meets and frequents Ketty La Rocca, an artist included in the panorama of international artistic avant-gardes, who puts her in contact with Eugenio Miccini, founder of the "Visual Poetry" Movement. He brings Franca Pisani's 1976 creation Album Operizio to museums and universities around the world. In 1977 she was invited to the inauguration of the Center Pompidou in Paris by the director Pontus Hulten, within the large-scale program of artistic and cultural exchange, such as exhibiting Geltrude Stein's Living Room, films, posters, performances and Visual Poetry in the museum spaces i.e. Album Operzio. From that moment on, a long series of exhibitions will begin, still evolving, driven by the urgency of experimenting with his coherent conceptual direction. Franca Pisani thus exhibits in the Hertziana Library in Munich (1977), at the University of Chicago (1999), in New York (2000), in Nice (2003), at the Galleria Maretti Arte in Montecarlo, in Nimes (2005), in the Marino Marini Museum (2008), at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid (2009), three times at the Venice Biennale (2009, 2011 and 2017), in the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin (2013), in the “Dietrofront” exhibition at the Reali Poste of the Uffizi (2014), in the “Archeofuturo” exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto (2014), participates in “Setttantotto Ritratto” in parchment for the book donnArchitettura (2014), donates his Self-Portrait to the Uffizi Gallery which becomes part of the relative, unique collection (2015), participates in the Expo Milan in the Tuscany pavilion and in the pavilion of the Principality of Monaco (2015), exhibits in the “Desdemona” exhibition in the Palace of Justice in Florence (2015).