Curriculum

FRANCESCO RUSSO   www.francescorusso.com - cell. +39-328-6633876.
Born in Caltagirone Ct. Sicily (Italy)  1946 from Greek mother and Italian father.
Lives and works in Cisternino, Italy
Represented by Belgian Gallery Annette de Keyser in Antwerp
(http://www.annettedekeyser.com/artists/francesco-russo)
Lives and works in Cisternino, Italy

1946 - Born in Caltagiron, Sicily.
1964 - Lives and works in Savilly, France.
1966 - Assistant of Francesco Messina, Accademia di Brera, Milan.
1967 - Assistant of Marino Marini, Accademia di Brera, Milan.
1969 - Museo d'Arte Moderna Pagani, Legnano. Il Grattacielo Art Gallery, Milan. Art Gallery of the cultural club Il Melograno, Milan.
1971 - Arte Nuova G. Negri Art Gallery, Milan. Alexander Iolas Gallery, Paris. Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York.
1973 - Alexander Iolas Gallery, Milan.
1974 - Il Gotico Gallery, Piacenza.
1977 - Nature & Symbol, Anni di Gennaro Gallery, Milan.
1978 - Seeds, Bonaparte Gallery, Milan.
1979 - Maggiore Gallery, Bologna.
1981 - Seeds & Leaf, Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York.
1982 - Construction of a temple decorated with sculptures in Northern India (U.P.).
1987 - Seeds & Symbols, Anni di Gennaro Gallery, New York.
1990 - Bonaparte Gallery, Milan.
1992 - La Nassa Gallery, Lecco Works as a sculptor on the new theatre of the Goetheanum, Dornak/Basel.
1993 - Portici Gallery, Locarno. Marble sculptures for the Center of Unity, Brienz (CH).
1994 - Palazzo della Provincia, Asti.
1996 - Scenography and sacred sculptures for the film Nirvana by Gabriele Salvatore. Tantric shapes, Gallery of the Indian cultural club Sneh Sadan, Milan.
1997 - Arte ceramica, Scuderia del Palazzo Reale, Naples.
1998 - Arie Mediterranee Nuida Karamik, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm.
2000 - Keys for the new Millennium, Annette De Keyser Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium). Liste 2000, Basel (CH).
2001 - "Eight Sculptors", Annette De Keyser Gallery, Antwerp.
2002 - "Art Athina", Athens.
2003 - "Upgrade your Mind", Installation (Sculptures, light and sound). Discoteca Mavù - Locorotondo - Puglia. "Artissima", Turin.
2004 - "Art Rotterdam", Rotterdam.
2005 - "Colors!" (with Vincent Geyskens, Nils Erik Jerdevik, Marielle Soons, Berend Strik), Annette De Keyser Gallery, Antwerp. "Conflict & Tensions / I Am" Annette De Keyser Gallery, Antwerp.
2006 - Envoy Gallery, New York (USA).
2007 - Resonance, with Marie Soons, Annette De Keyser Gallery, Antwerp. Slick Art Fair, Paris Hanuman Murti, Chillianola Ashram Raniket, Uttar Pradesh, India.
2008 - "Art Amsterdam", Amsterdam. Slick Art Fair, Paris.
2010 - "Blue, Bluer, Orange Blues" (with Tom Friedman, Clint Jukkala, a.o.), Envoy Enterprises, New York.
2011 - "Object & Drawings" (with Oliviero Rainaldi, Manfredu Schu, Ad De Jong, Fia Cielen, Eva De Leener), Annette De Keyser Gallery, Antwerp.
2012 - "Unità", Annette De Keyser Gallery, Antwerp.
2013 - "20 Years for a better World", Annette De Keyser Gallery, Antwerp. Expo Art 2013, Bari.
2015 - "Essere nel presente, così si fa la storia", Spazio Raw Gallery, Milan.
2016 - "Inno alla Pietra", Monument of steel stone on traffic ruondabout, Cisternino.
2017 - "Io Sono, Eterna Gloria", Annette De Keyser Gallery, Antwerp. 23 June-4 August "So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu" Envoy Enterprises Gallery, New York.