Franco Vaccari Biography
Vaccari Francesco (Bologna, 1936) Francesco Vaccari is an Italian painter, born in Modena in 1936. After graduating in physics, he began to approach art, creating his first works of visual painting: “Pop esie” (1965), “Entropic and The Traces” (1966). In 1972 he made his debut at the Venice Biennale with the work “Leave on these walls a photographic trace of your passage”, in which the work was not created by the artist but by the public, through a very strong interaction with the latter, which he became its true author. He will participate again in the Venice Biennale in 1980 and 1993, presenting two personal rooms with works such as “Codemondo”, “Bar Code-Code Bar”, “Il Bar Code 2”. The latter is proposed as a space in which the public is free to meet and discuss, becoming an internal place but at the same time separate from the exhibition space. Vaccari is a philosopher of photography, interpreted by himself as a presence rather than an object, capable of offering a meditation that lasts over the years. Vaccari has participated in many important exhibitions, such as the exhibition "Combat per un'image", held in the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna in Turin, at the Triennale di Milano (1979), at the Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna, at the Rome, at the “Minimalia” exhibition at the PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York (1999), at the Center of Contemporary Art in Warsaw (2001), at the Italian Cultural Institute in Prague (2004), at the Museo Cantonale d'Arte in Lugano (2008).
