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Red Horse, Watercolours, 140 x 225 cm

Franco Giomi is an artist born in Maremma,

an enchanting area of Southern Tuscany,

where he currently works and lives

Giomi is a self-taught artist who does enjoy

all different painting techniques but who

has undoubtedly a special inclination for

the watercolors technique.

Giomi’s watercolors paintings offer very

contemporary figurative representations;

he loves painting on huge canvases

while usually this technique prefers small-

medium size formats.

His narratives deal with notions of strength,

freedom, elegance and the indomitable

potency of nature: the wild Maremma

(homeland of the artist), emblematic

women, the rugged force of the sea are

Giomi’s favourite ‘muse’.

Giomi’s scenes are never still, more a

fragment of some longer story he wants

to tell us: the movement and action are

created by the predominance of white

painted over underlying spots of color on

oversized canvas.

Parco dell’Uccellina, Watercolours & Charcoal, 85 x 141 cm

Dawn, Watercolours, 90 x 141 cm

Solo Exhibitions

Sadowski Gallery, Gubbio, Italy

West-Eleven Gallery, London, UK

Mediamuseum, Pescara, Italy

Castel of Capalbio, Capalbio, Italy

Museum of Archeology, Grosseto, Italy

Piazzetta del Porto, Punta Ala, Italy

Sala del Frontone, Talamone, Italy

Il Gualdo Gallery, Punta Ala, Italy

Biennales

Chelsea Art Biennale 2013, London, UK;

Izmir Art Biennale 2011, Turkey, special

guest invited by the Jury;

Florence Art Biennale 2009, Italy, winner

of the 4th Prize ‘Lorenzo il Magnifico’;

Chianciano Art Biennale 2009, Italy

Group Exhibitions

Gagliardi Gallery, London, UK

Palazzo dei Priori, Assisi, Italy

Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, Italy

Vernice Artfair, Forli, Italy

Artisti in Mostra, Parma, Italy

Publications

Catalogo dell’Arte Moderna numero 48,

Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori;

Annuario dell’Arte Moderna 2012, Acca

Edizioni

force

Forza 8, Watercolours, 70 x 100 cm

Fuga, Watercolours, 141 x 90 cm

‘In the paintings of Franco Giomi,

watercolor functions as performing

art in which his narratives become a

dance on paper’

Alex Michon, Artist and Co-director of

The Transition Gallery, London

Tramonto, Watercolours 90 x 141 cm

Mandria, Watercolours & Charcoal 141 x 300 cm

Match-race, Watercolours, 141 x 90cm

Forza 9, Watercolours, 141 x 95 cm

Bolina, Watercolours, 85 x 141 cm

Rientro, Watercolours & Charcoal, 100 x 60 cm

Polo, Watercolours, 56 x 76 cm

Palio, Watercolours, 60 x 120 cm

grace

Chiara, Watercolours, 80 x 50 cm

Rita, Watercolours, 141 x 90 cm

‘Giomi depicts curvy and attractive women without any

mawkishness or sensuous mannerism, each image is

instead a marvelous imaginative representation that the

artist grabs and describes in a very accomplished and

enchanting way.’

Giuseppina Scotti, Art Critic

Nudo, Watercolours,135 x 95 cm

Sofia, Watercolours, 135 x 95 cm

Beach, Watercolours, 76 x 56 cm

Catwalk, Watercolours, 76 x 56 cm

Venice, Acrylics on mdf, 130 x 80 cm

Pina, Watercolours, 141 x 90 cm

Bella, Watercolours, 76 x 56 cm

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Silence, Watercolours, 141 x 100 cm

Sleeping Beauty, Acrylics on canvas, 150x 100 cm

“..Giomi’s work is poetry of watercolours

wisely blended that reveal in some languid

backgrounds the curious release of the

figurative in favour of a more introspective

narrative capable of evoking true emotions

rather than depicting the factual reality.”

Chiara Strozzieri, Art Critic

Padule della Diaccia Botrona, Watercolours, 141 x 90 cm

Tramonto, Watercolours,90 x 90 cm

San Galgano Abbey, Acrylics on canvas, 70 x 100 cm

dream

Anime, Enamels on mdf, 65 x 40 cm

Venetian, Watercolours, 65 x 40 cm

Fuga, Acrylics on paper, 141 x 300 cm

Messangers, Acrylics on canvas, 200 x 100 cm

Sunday, Enamels on mdf, 65 x 40 cm Ballerina, Enamels on mdf, 65 x 40 cm

Franco Giomiil Delfino

58040 Punta AlaCastiglione della Pescaia

Grosseto, Italy

+39 333 996 4581+44 776 534 8215

www.francogiomi.com

info@francogiomi.com