In Chiasso the first anthological exhibition of Francesco Vella

Until April 29, 2018 at Spazio Officina in Chiasso, Switzerland, the first anthological exhibition of Ticino artist Francesco Vella is underway.

Through the exhibition visitors will learn about the artist’s 30 years of creative activity and pictorial research: from his first experiences in the 1980s, after attending the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, to his panels where images are incorporated in the form of historical layering with a repertoire ranging from the great masters of art history to the chronicle of everyday life.

Throughout the 1990s Vella creates works with almost monoscrome backgrounds of white, rust and blue gray, while in recent years graphic sign, primal writing, illegible signs, words of the soul appear.

His works are a continuous attempt to resist the clash with everyday chaos and emphasize his visionary nature in relation to the main aspects of present-day art.

On display in the exhibition are graphic works, silkscreens, engravings, assemblages and collages, drawings and temperas. Also featured are compositions created for the occasion.

For info: www.centroculturalechiasso.ch

The anthological exhibition"Francesco Vella. Visions of art: the search for the sign in painting" can be visited Tuesday through Friday from 2 to 6 p.m.; Saturday, Sunday and special openings from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 to 6 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Tickets: Full 7 euros, reduced 5 euros. Free for children up to 7 years old.

Image: Francesco Vella, White Thought (2013; acrylic, mortar and pencil, 25 cm diameter, Artist’s Archive)

In Chiasso the first anthological exhibition of Francesco Vella

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