Roberto Franzoni was born in Turin, and lives and works in Milan. Since the end of the 1960’s he started working with photography and, during the 1970’s he turned to fashion and internal design.
Since 1978 he entered the Mail Art world and participated in project “Amazonic Highways” at the 16th San Paolo Biennal Exhibition. He developed his artistic thought aimed towards the use of photography as an idea of painting due to the possibilities that digit techniques nowadays offer.
Passing through a print on canvas with interventions often in acrylic or other materials, his research developed towards a poetic form or reality.
He participated in the 2004 London Art Biennal and at the Gallarate Modern Art Gallery with the project “At the Mirror”, and to important events connected to Pierre Restany’s memorial at the 52nd Venice Biennal with “Room 312 memorial for Pierre” .
(From the catalog of "Masters of Brera" - Shanghai)
1970 - 1976 Photographic Studio fashion and Internal Design
1978 Mail Art
1981 “Amazzonic Highways”
16a San Paolo Biennal, Brasil – Milan Art Center
2004 Mail Art: “At the mirror”
London Art Biennial
Foyer Theatre “Franco Parenti”, Milan
Santa Chiara Church, Vercelli
2005 10a MiArt Art Fair, Installation
“The shades of the silence”
by Milan Art Center
2006 Libro di Artista: “The Amnesty’s colours”
“Never again violence to the women”
Free Fine Arts Accademy, Brescia
2006 3a edizion Bolzano Art Fair KunStart 06
“Mq” Project
“Camera 312 on behalf of memory for Pierre Restany”
Milan Art Center
2007 CVB, The Carrozzini von Buhler Gallery , New York -
“Awakening”
2007 52. Biennal, Internazional Art Exhibition, Venice
“Camera 312 on behalf of memory for Pierre Restany”
curated by Ruggero Maggi
2008 Masters of Brera - Liu Haisu Art Museum of Shanghai
2009 Bergamo Arte Fiera - Bergamo
2009 Artour-O Il Must - Grand Hotel Minerva - Firenze
