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Biography
Francesca Rivetti (Milan, Italy, 1972)
Francesca Rivetti was born in Milan in 1972 and began her collaboration with professional studios, advertising and design agencies at a very young age.
Between 1993 and 1994 she spent several time studying at the Edinburgh College of Art, UK, where she attended Fine Art Photography courses.
In 1997 she realised her first major fashion shoot for Nicola Trussardi’s fashion house. That experience led off to several important partnerships with different fashion and design brands.
In 1999 she exhibited in the “Care of Milan, Giovani che usano la fotografia” group show, in the Via Farini archive in Milan.
The trips she made to Tel Aviv, Nepal and Japan between 2000 and 2001 were crucial for her artistic career. There, she developed and strengthened some of the key topics of her work and decided to devote herself completely to art.
The artist aims to capture the essence of phenomena, setting herself in contrast to the visual excesses of our time. She acts by subtraction, creating emptiness, by focusing on the relationship between the real and the imagined, which has become a major subject in her research over the years.
Her works are like a space able to create visual projections leaving room for viewers’ interpretation rather than offering finished images already full of answers.
In the following years she exhibited all over Italy, from the Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna in Palermo to the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.
Since 2005, she has devoted herself almost exclusively to photographic research. She has also taken part into a group exhibition in Paris and a solo show at Galleria Brancolini Grimaldi in Rome.
In the following years she joined numerous exhibitions at important cultural organizations such as the Triennale di Milano, Palazzo Te and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. She then worked at the solo exhibit MLZ in Trieste in 2014.
The artist now lives and works in Milan.
Copyright the artist. Photo Francesca Rivetti
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