FRANCESCO NESI

Francesco Nesi was born in 1952 in San Casciano Val di Pesa (Fi). Self-taught painter grew up with the great passion cultivated since childhood. Ironic, full of imagination and a lover of 'joyful and playful' visions, he has a freshness and a wealth of inventiveness. These are the atmospheres of his places that inspire him and accompany him in his paintings; his works are appreciated for the harmony of color and the skilful construction of the landscape that welcomes the figures. Nesi started exhibiting at the beginning of the Nineties, after having won the Bargellini Prize in Florence in 1985, obtaining a personal exhibition at the National Library of the city. Since 1993 he has participated with great success in collective and personal exhibitions, fairs and art exhibitions, both in Italy and abroad. The 'men' with hat, frac and martingale have happily continued to fly over the Tuscan landscape, to play the violin on the sea and under the bridges of a dreamlike Florence, for all this time, with countless exhibitions, becoming known in the United States, in Munich and in Minden (Germany), in France in Paris, in Cap d'Antibes, in Chaumont. And again at the Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates, in Riga (Latvia), in California, in Florence (Church of San Marco) and in Ferrara in the Palazzo degli Estensi, then exhibitions in Castro Verde in Portugal and in Spain. Then again the personal exhibition at the Il Novecento Gallery in Salerno, Corsica and Poltu Quatu and Porto Cervo (Sardinia). Following are the exhibitions in France, at Frontignan and at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, at the Galleria d'Arte Barbato in Scafati (Sa) and 'Orizzonti... e oltre' in the Sala delle Colonne in Pontassieve (Fi). And, again, 'La danza della Luna' at the SpaziArti Ungallery in Milan, 'A passeggio tra sogno e realtà' at Palazzo De Maria in Paestum (Sa) and in the complex of San Filippo Neri di Lauro (Av), the personal exhibition at Villa Schiff of Montignoso (Ms), in Altamura (Art Image gallery) at the Michetti Museum in Francavilla a Mare (Ch) and the bipersonal with his daughter, 'Francesco ed Elisa Nesi. Arte generazionale' at Eataly di Firenze and 'Sotto la Stessa Luna' at the Polifunctional Observatory of the Chianti area of Barberino Val d'Elsa (Fi). In 2015 he inaugurated a monument to Pontassieve, dedicated to 'fiascaie'. He lives and works in Tavarnelle Val di Pesa (Fi).

FRANCESCO NESI