Francesca Di Martino
She has
graduated from the State Art School of Naples and graduated in Scenography,
specializing in Visual Arts and Performing Arts, exactly Painting, at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. In 1999 she won the painting competition
"Alfonso Marquez Prize", Portici, (Na). From then on she has participated
in collective contemporary art, competitions, personal exhibitions, and
pictorial-theatrical performances, in which she fully expresses her
multifaceted nature.
With the
first personal exhibition of 2011, "Kill your teacher", at the Caffè
dell’Epoca literary space, Naples, she exhibits a gallery of portraits of his
masters. It is present with some murals in the "open-air museum" of
Diamante, (Cs). In 2015, with the personal exhibition "Inside and out of
me", within the exhibition "Let's deal with art", at the
headquarters of the Banca Popolare del Mediterraneo, Naples, she confirmed her
interest in the face and human spirit.
On the
occasion of the official commemoration for Pino Daniele, at the Maschio
Angioino, Naples, she wins the “A postcard for Pino” competition. In the personal
show entitled "Manga p'a capa" for the review "Human
portraits", held at the Fonoteca, Naples, she exhibits a gallery of
portraits taken from the souls of some famous manga from the 70s - 90s, which
will be exhibited at the collective exhibition “Biennale del Comics in Art”,
curated by Elena Ferrari, Passpartout Gallery, at Atahotel Expo Fiera Milano
and at the pavilions of the Carousel du Louvre in Cannes and Paris.
Participates
in the NAF Napoli Arte Fiera, the first market exhibition of modern and
contemporary art, with the cultural association La Fenice and Resetart, Mostra
D’Oltremare, Naples. Participate in the collective "An Eco for All",
curated by Linda Irace and Tony Stefanucci, National Archaeological Museum of
Naples and at the Miami Beach Regional Library, Florida.
Participates
in the 19h Generative Art Conference GA2016 "Empathize with my Gaze"
in collaboration with the Research and Design Center of the New Science
University, Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Naples, at the Auditorium of the
CRF Foundation, Florence. Participation through the "portrait of Charles
of Bourbon" and related filing to the publication "Carlo The utopia
of a kingdom" published by Paparo, promoted by DATABANC and by the Archaeological,
Fine Arts and Landscape Superintendence for the Municipality of Naples.
In the personal "Decade 2007/2017",
at the Casa della Corte di Agerola Civic Museum, Naples, she exhibits a
selection of artworks relating to the last decade of her production. “Stories”
is the personal exhibition of 2018 that inaugurates the Am Studio exhibition
space by Antonio and Alessandro Minervini, Naples. In the Catalog of Modern
Art, Italian artists from the early twentieth century to today, n°. 53,
editorial Giorgio Mondadori.
It is
featured in "Art Paths in Italy 2017", edited by Giorgio Di Genova,
Enzo Le Pera, Rubbettino publisher.
Her artworks
are acquired: in The collections of the Fondazione Circolo Artistico
Politecnico di Napoli, whose catalog is edited by Isabella Valente, Editors
Guide; in the Museum Complex of the Girolamini in Naples; in the Museum of the
Nativity of Rivisondoli; in the Civic Museum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere; in
the Casa della Corte di Agerola Civic Museum, Naples.
In 2019 she won the first prize, in the painting section, of the first edition of the "Creative World", S. Gennaro Vesuviano, Naples.
"Francesca
Di Martino constructs portraits with the violent objectivity of her sign, of
her reworked brushstroke, made of impulsive and dynamic color, the range of
emotions and persistence of memory that contradict the precariousness of the
ephemeral physical and temporal image and the plots of the existential
misunderstandings of destiny, of one's own and of others ".
(Silvano Saccone)
