Biography

Francesco Nottolini is a painter, graphic artist and engraver, born in Camerino in 1960, and a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata, Italy.

Major exhibitions and awards: 1984 Helvia Recina Award, Villa Potenza; 1986 Biennale di Camerino; 1986 G. Mondadori and Associates Art Award; 1989 Italian Artist Award at the Biennale Homage to Caravaggio Malta; 1989 G.Battista Salvi and Piccola Europa Exhibit at Sassoferrato; 1990 Provincial Exhibit Movimento per la Vita, Macerata; 1990 Ancona Biennale (Marche Award); Golden Plaque and nomination as Accademician of Dioscuri – Roma, 1992; Exhbit at the Palazzo Ducale of Camerino, with the sponsorship of the University of Camerino, 1995; Exhibit in Numana (sponsored by Art Leader), 1995; Exhibit at the University of Camerino, in the Palazzo Ducale, Varano Hall, 2006; Exhibit in the Palazzo Comunale of Pollenza (MC) dedicated to Caravaggio, 2006; Exhibit at the Palazzo Comunale of Gagliole, 2007; Graphic exhibit at the Palazzo Comunale of Pollenza (MC), 2012 dedicated to Magdalo Mussio; Painting exhibit at the Palazzo Parisani Bezi (Museo Napoleonico), Tolentino (MC), 2012. Retrospective exhibition at the Council Chamber of the City of Castelraimondo (MC), 2015. Francesco Nottolini conceived and designed the artistic calendar of the City of Castelraimondo (MC), 2015.

What several art critics have written about Francesco Nottolini: Noemi Gambini “… what transpires from his canvases are the passion and love that surround the artist, which make him part of a context and place him within history. His forms sail in a sea of color and matter that thicken or dilute, depending upon the intensity of the emotion. His paintings are not just shapes and colors, lines and circles, but also emotion, sensuality and passion…”; Lucio Del Gobbo “…Nottolini uses colors and the white-black motif as an ancient-tradition alchemist to draw the preciousness inherent in them, and translating them invariably into feelings. Graphic layout and assembly are always designed to yield a synthesis capable of intensifying times and ways of fruition, guiding the attention in the desired direction … “; Prof. Angelo Antonelli “… behind his works there is a long preparation, nothing comes out of nowhere, the idea of the genius who creates from nothing is pure fantasy … his education at the Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata offered him the chance to try his hand in any genre of painting, from graphics, engraving included, to mixed media, oil and graphics … “; Prof. Franco Speroni (Art History Professor) “… Nottolini’s unique work places itself in a zone
between the pursuit of the structure of sensations and the presence of personal pleasure that cannot be reduced to a pure search for compositional structures and stable perceptions … “; Alvaro Valentini “… from a purely stylistic terms, the clear and measured artistic gesture becomes part of a vast field of verbal-visual concretist, conceptual and narrative pursuits developed in many countries from the 1950s onwards. This is a context Francesco Nottolini has learned to know and experience at the Academy under the wise guidance of Magdalo Mussio, one of the Europe’s highest expressions of conceptual art and visual poetry ..”; Prof. Armando Ginesi “Nottolini remains fundamentally tied to the natural element, to the “thingness” of the object which finds its meaningful feedback in phenomenal reality …his experimentation tends to break down the form to analyze its constituent structures, to feel the tremors and beating of color tones … .The artist’s works were cited from 1990 to 2014 by the Elite Selection Art – Artitalia Edition Perdicaro Roberto – Varese; in 2010, they were included in the Italian Art Census – Art Diffusion Center – Palermo; finally, it was mentioned by LEADERS, protagonists of the New Vanguards 2013 and 2014, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Art – EA EDITOR – Palermo.

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