Francesco Zorzi (IT, 1985) is an artist placed at the convergence between formal and conceptual, exploring human condition and everyday life in the context of contemporary society, following a research where perception, intuition and memory play an essential role.
FZ explores new connections between the art world and his personal fascinations with scientific knowledge, combined together in open systems with which the audience can relate for investigating both their inner worlds and their surroundings.
The body of work in his current artistic research focuses on the limits of human perception and the blurry boundaries of our sensorial experience, the ‘image of the self’ and ‘the image of reality’.
His formal research is characterized by an abundance of materials and techniques, informed by his background in applied arts and further conceptualized within art.
In a constant balance between control and spontaneity, order and turmoil, tending to free-floating forms, he integrates new modalities of visual composition, gestural expressionism and meticulous formal re-configurations.
It is a process in which one action leads to the next in an ongoing echo that has much to do with reacting rather than acting.
FZ’s work goes beyond the single format of the art medium, ranging from large-scale paintings, drawings, object-like sculptures and installations, often in conversation with each other and creating multiple configurations and parallel narratives.

In 2018 he is awarded with the Tiffany Co. Italian Fellowship at the prestigious AAR American Academy in Rome (IT) and receives a grant from the Embassy & Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Italy (NL) for his ongoing research Macula - The Theater is in The Mind. 
FZ’s work has been presented nationally and internationally, among others at Art City NDSM (NL), AAR American Academy in Rome (IT), LFF Lago Film Festival (IT). His work is installed in public space in Amsterdam (NL), Azores (PT), Rome (IT).
In conjunction with his artistic practice, he teaches at MADE Program in Siracusa (IT).
He is currently based in Amsterdam.


Grants & Support:


2018-19
Grant / Embassy & Consulate General of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands in Italy (NL)
‘Macula - The Theater is in The Mind’
‘Macula - Il Teatro è nella Mente’
Short Film  
2019
Support / Rosco (UK) - Material partner for installation specific installation:
‘Phantom Grid’ at ∆x Displacement Cinquemostre 2019
AAR - American Academy in Rome (IT)
2018
Support / Cernit (BE)  - Material partner for the installation, site specific:
‘Macula / The Theater is in The Mind’,
AAR - American Academy in Rome (IT)


 

Fellowships:
2018
AAR - American Academy in Rome,
Tiffany & Co. Fellowship, Rome (IT)


 
Residencies:

2016
W&T - Walk & Talk Azores
Public Art, Ponta Delgada, Azores (PT)


 

Exhibitions:

2021 
(forthcoming)
Edition 21
BBDB, Treviso (IT)
2018
Macula - The Theater is in The Mind
AAR - American Academy in Rome, Rome (IT)
2017
Macula, New Grammar
Art City NDSM, Amsterdam (NL)


 

Group Exhibitions:

2021
Reflections & Frames
Sound Light Color Atelier, Amsterdam (NL)
Mosaic - Lonesome Confetti
Contemporary Art Biennial, 
Le Latitudini dell’Arte, Netherlands & Italy
Pulchri Studio, The Hague (NL)
2019
Fluxes - Public Art (painting & live painting performance)
NDSM Open 2019, Art City NDSM, Amsterdam (NL)
2019
Macula - The Theater is in The Mind / Open Studios 2019
AAR - American Academy in Rome (IT)
2019
∆x Displacement - Cinquemostre 2019
AAR - American Academy in Rome (IT)
2017
New Grammar - Painting & live painting performance
NDSM Open 2017, Art City NDSM, Amsterdam (NL)
2016
Trilha (Trail) - Public Art (painting & installations)
Walk&Talk Azores, Ponta Delgada, Azores (PT)


 

Work in Public Space:

2019
Fluxes - Painting, site specific 
Art City NDSM, Amsterdam (NL)
*commissioned by: Art City NDSM
2019
Lagoon (L’Argo) - Painting , site specific
Perestrello, Municipio V, Rome (IT)
*commissioned by: Embassy and Consulate
General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
in Italy (NL)
2016
Trilha (Trail) - Painting & installation, site specific
Art City NDSM, Amsterdam (NL)


 

Live Painting Performance:

2021
Painting Flashes - Milieu 
Milieu + De Ceuvel, Amsterdam (NL)
2019
Painting Fluxes - NDSM Open 2019
Art City NDSM, Amsterdam (NL)
*commissioned by: Art City NDSM
2019
Painting Lagoon (L’Argo)
Perestrello, Municipio V, Rome (IT)
* coimmissioned  by: Embassy and Consulate
General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Italy (NL)
2017
Painting New Grammar - NDSM Open 2017
Art City NDSM, Amsterdam (NL)
*commissioned by: Art City NDSM


 

Film Screenings:

2019
Macula - The Theater is in The Mind
Macula - Il Teatro è nella Mente
LFF19 - Lago Film Fest, Treviso (IT)
nominated:  Best Original Soundtrack Award
nominated: Veneto Director Award


 

Artist Book - self published:

2019
Macula - The Theater is in The Mind
Edition of 50
presented at LFF19- Lago Film Fest, Treviso (IT)


 

Press & Work Presentations:

2019
Artribune - Cinquemostre 2019 Δx Displacement
Aarome.org - Cinquemostre 2019 Δx Displacement
Aarome.org - AAR Open Studios 2019
AAR magazine 2019 - American Academy in Rome 2019
LFF19 - Macula - The Theater is in The Mind
interview: Mattia Coletti
L’Argo - Public Art Installation / with Orizzontale Architects
NDSM press 2019 - NDSM Open 2019  
2018
Studio Viewing - Francesco Zorzi
interview: Greta Madline,
photography: Coco Olakunle


 

Lectures:

2019
LFF19 - Director’s Talks
Macula - The Theater is in The Mind,
Macula - Il Teatro è nella Mente
interview by Matteo Zadra
2018
AAR - American Academy in Rome,
Shoptalk Francesco Zorzi & Victoria Moses
Macula - The Theater is in The Mind
2017
Pecha Kucha Amsterdam (NL) - The Macula Project
2017
Fabrica (IT) - The Thermal Paper Project
2016
Walk&Talk Azores (PT) - Quarteirão & Public Art


 

Published Work on Books:
2021
So What - Artwork & Essay txt,
Vuoto 2 / Controverso
Published by Orizzontale + Atto
ISBN 9788894576917
 

Education:
2008 - 2011
MA - Product Design, Politecnico School of Design, Milan (IT)
2008
AHO Oslo School of Architecture & Design, Oslo (NO)
2004 - 2008
BA - Industrial Design, Politecnico School of Design, Milan (IT)
  Francesco Zorzi (IT, 1985) is an artist placed at the convergence between formal and conceptual, exploring human condition and everyday life events in the context of contemporary society, following a research where perception, intuition and memory play an essential role. FZ explores new connections between the art world and his personal fascinations with scientific knowledge, combined together in open systems with which the audience can relate for investigating both their inner worlds and their surroundings. The body of work in his current artistic research focuses on the limits of human perception and the blurry boundaries of our sensorial experience, the image of the self and the image of reality in connection with the latest discoveries in quantum physics and their representation of the world. His formal research is characterized by an abundance of materials and techniques, informed by his background in applied arts and further conceptualized within art. In a constant balance between control and spontaneity, order and turmoil, tending to free-floating forms, he integrates new modalities of visual composition, gestural expressionism and meticulous formal re-configurations. It is a process in which one action leads to the next in an ongoing echo that has much to do with reacting rather than acting. FZ’s work goes beyond the single format of the art medium, ranging from large-scale paintings, drawings, object-like sculptures and installations, often in conversation with each other and creating multiple configurations and parallel narratives. In 2018 he is awarded with the Tiffany Co. Italian Fellowship at the prestigious American Academy in Rome (IT) and receives a grant from the Embassy Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Italy (NL) for the project Macula - The Theater is in The Mind. The work is an ongoing exploration of the correlation between distorted vision and distorted perception, Age-Macular Degeneration and the fictive visual perceptions of the Charles Bonnet Syndrome. FZ’s work has been presented nationally and internationally, among others at Art City NDSM (NL), American Academy in Rome (IT), Lago Film Festiva (IT). His work is installed in public space in Amsterdam (NL), Azores (PT), Rome (IT). In conjunction with his artistic practice, he teaches at MADE Program in Siracusa (IT). He is currently based in Amsterdam.