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Francesco De Grandi finds in the archetypal motives of art history a path of knowledge and a route toward spiritual elevation — a form of painting that verges on meditation.

Narrative, figurative, romantic, evocative: De Grandi’s painting, suspended between the study of nature and the feeling of the sacred, reveals a mature awareness of painting as a language in constant dialogue with tradition, yet one that remains permeable to contemporary tremors — culminating in an iconographic reinterpretation where everything merges, and at times overturns.

His work is an homage to the immense human stage — the collective theatre that, from mythological tales to the raw chronicles of the present, populates the world’s proscenium.

A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo, De Grandi moved to Milan in 1994, where he lived until 2008. From 2009 to 2012 he worked in Shanghai, before returning to Palermo — a place more suited to the continuation of his research.

Since 1992, he has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in public institutions, museums, and private galleries in Italy and abroad. Since 2015, he has been represented by RizzutoGallery. He lives and works in Palermo, where he also teaches Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts.