Francesco Geronazzo born in 1984, Valdobbiadene, Treviso, Italy. Currently lives and works in Ozz, Australia.
Educated at the Artistic High School of Treviso and after completing a two-year Master degree in printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna.
He worked as an etching assistant at the FBAUP of Port, Portugal and is currently lecturing in printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna.
Francesco Geronazzo born in 1984, Valdobbiadene, Treviso, Italy. Currently lives and works in Ozz, Australia.
Educated at the Artistic High School of Treviso and after completing a two-year Master degree in printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna.
He worked as an etching assistant at the FBAUP of Port, Portugal and is currently lecturing in printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna.
Through traditional and experimental practices Francesco Geronazzo, founder of The Printmaker Movement, aims to expand the perimeters of printmaking.
With Studios in Margaret River, Western Australia and Castel del Rio, Bologna Italy he focuses on building an international artistic community fostering relationships and developing printmaking skills, and exhibited in prestigious galleries worldwide.
He started printmaking to focus on the space between action and results. Nature is the main focus of his work, encouraging his reflection about the beauty of transformation and shapes.
Francesco aims to expand the boundaries of art through traditional and experimental techniques, to show the relationship between nature and contemporary society.
Reinventing an ancient technique like that of printmaking art, Geronazzo creates poetic pictures where his artisan and manual working method gives rise to an authentic “aesthetic of imperfection”.
In contrast with that process of production and reproduction of images offered by modern technologies, Geronazzo creates etchings, sculptures and installations where traces of nature and lifetime memories fuse themselves in a very slow and delicate creative process.
From differences we grow.
Invited at “Taccuino Urbinate” KAUS Urbino 2016
2° prize FIG Bilbao 2013
3° prize Fibrenus 2012 Carnello (FR)
1st prize in etching Arti e In-Arti mestieri 2012 Suzzara
1st prize in etching Giorgio Morandi 2012 Bologna
Prize/scholarship for painting, Zucchelli 2010 (BO)
1st prize in painting, Molinella 2010
Prize/scholarship for painting, Zucchelli 2008 (BO)
Invitation to the Etching Symposium; KAUS, Urbino 2008
1st prize in etching “Carnello Carte ad Arte” 2007(FR)
1st prize “Etching” in Gorlago 2006(BG)
1st prize in the etching contest “ex libris Giorgio Gasparini” 2002(TV)
2017 “ROOTS” Esssecaffè Store, Bologna (I)
“Back to the roots” Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin (D)
2016 “SPECIES” Miro architects Bologna (I)
2015 “circle” FirestatioPrintStudio Melbourne VIC (AUS)
“samples” Margaret River Gallery WA (AUS)
2014 “NEO-NATURE” Margaret River Gallery WA (AUS)
2013 “Terrario-analisi ed esecuzione, Suzzara (I)
2010 “Inmenteniente” fabbrica delle candele, Forlì (I)
“in Forma di Segno” Adiacenze, Bologna (I)
2009 “Instalaciòn y obra grafica” Mucbe, Benicarlò, Spain (E)
“Semente” Maus Habitos Porto, (P)
“Appunti” I Portici Hotel, Bologna (I)
2008 “Trazo y Forma organica”. Lakq, L’Eliana. Valencia Spain (E)