Milan, Fabbrica Eos' historic headquarters reopens with exhibition of singer-songwriter and painter Francesco Tricarico

The historic location of Fabbrica Eos Arte Contemporanea in Milan ’s Piazzale Baiamonti reopens to the public and does so, from March 30 to April 29, 2023, with a solo exhibition by Francesco Tricarico (Milan, 1971) entitled Don’t stop the paint. The exhibition space joins Fabbrica Eos Gallery (Viale Pasubio, corner of Via Bonnet), effectively doubling the artistic offerings of the gallery, founded in 1987 by Giancarlo Pedrazzini.

The exhibition displays works by the Italian visual artist, singer, songwriter and musician, who is currently busy promoting his new single. Unlike what one might assume from his long and important career in music, painting was the first form of artistic expression for Tricarico. An urgency for painting that also manifests itself in his language and approach, characterized by continuous overlapping layers of signs and color.An artistic practice shared with the public through the live painting preparatory to the exhibition, which in March 2023 brought Francesco Tricarico to paint some of his works live at Fabbrica Eos Gallery, inviting art enthusiasts, specialists and the merely curious to follow him from the large glass wall or enter the Gallery to actively participate in the process.

Francesco Tricarico’s color poetry explodes in his canvases, in a path where the poetic and surprising gaze of the singer-songwriter meets an action painting, which is fantastic landscape of an artist’s world.

“For many years,” wrote Elisabetta Sgarbi on the occasion of the exhibition she curated in Bormio as part of La Milanesiana, “there has been a custom between Francesco Tricarico and me: at unspecified hours of the night he sends me images of his canvases, large canvases. So I have been lucky enough to follow this artistic trajectory of Francesco Tricarico-already a very successful musician, performer and writer-for as long as I can remember. These large canvases are explosions of colors, which, in the interweaving of lines, conquer a form, which is always the form of a restless interiority like Francesco’s.”

Writes Francesco Tricarico, “Where Art ends, Life ends. I do not know if this has already been said. Only one rule in the Works: there must be no form decodable to the eye. Everything must be in motion, layers overlapping layers colors white on white on black on color for eternity, let there be depth. The word still, color and wave lines do not. Let there be moving let there be living Works the life that cannot be seen, that cannot be touched, that cannot be felt. Let it be redemption from suffering and pain let it be joy and living torment and justification and ancient and wise speech and let it not care about the omissions of which we are all victims Art. In a Work there is a rectangle that contains a circle, the exception that confirms the rule. Repeat. Where the Work ends, life ends.”

The exhibition includes some 15 works in acrylic on canvas, created in the period 2021-2023. It is also complemented by a pair of canvases painted live in March. In support of the exhibition, the catalog “Doppio Tricarico,” edited by Elisabetta Sgarbi, produced by the Fondazione Elisabetta Sgarbi as part of La Milanesiana 2022 for the exhibition “Doppio Tricarico” (Banca Popolare di Sondrio, Bormio, 2022) will be available in the gallery. For information: T. +39 02 6596532, info@fabbricaeos.it, www.fabbricaeos.it.

Francesco Tricarico is an Italian singer-songwriter. In September 2000 he released his first single “Io sono Francesco,” which rose to the top of the Italian best-selling singles chart and was awarded the Platinum Record. In 2002 he released his first album, “Tricarico,” which was followed by other successful albums including “Giglio” (2008) - which contains the song “Vita Tranquilla” with which he won the Mia Martini Critics’ Award at the 2008 Sanremo Festival - “Il bosco delle fragole” (2009), “Invulnerable” (2013), and “Da chi non te l’aspetti - prima parte” (2016). In April 2019, the single “Abbracciami fortissimo” was released, anticipating the new album “Amore dillo senza ridere ma non troppo seriamente” (2021). In 2009 he published his first book, “Simply I Forgot an Elephant in My Pocket,” and in 2019 “Lost Ball. A Love Fable.” Tricarico, throughout his career, has written songs for many great artists, including Andriano Celentano, Zucchero, Gianni Morandi, and Malika. For his painting work, he has been collaborating with Giancarlo Pedrazzini’s Fabbrica Eos Gallery since 2016.

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Milan, Fabbrica Eos' historic headquarters reopens with exhibition of singer-songwriter and painter Francesco Tricarico

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