Working as an engineer and a painter, Viola had the privilege of experiencing the debated yet very prolific encounter between art and science.
During his artistic career he has studied and experimented with color and its laws thoroughly in order to grasp the notion of the sublime, qualifying his pictorial idiom with lines rich in intensity and completeness.
From his very first watercolors and, later on, in his oil paintings, Franco Viola has produced landscapes by combining reality and the inner world, seeking to transfer the emotion and the sublime of the uncontaminated reality.
A continuous process which accompanies thoughts on the nature of painting in the age of Modernism and on its relationship with place, time and the ever-changing social and human conditions. It is a rethink on Nature, in the context of a cognitive and emotional flux.
Franco Viola Vita
Vita
1953
Was born in Gaeta, Italy.
1977
Graduated from electrical engineering from the University of Rome.
Solo Exhibition
2016
Studio d'Arte per il '900, Turin
2013
Galerie Kampl, Munich
2013
Galerie Schrade, Karlsruhe
2012
Kunsthalle Dresden im art'otel, Dresden
2011
Museo de la Memoria de Andalucía, Granada
2010
Galleria PIo Monti, Rome
2008
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2006
Kunsthistrisches Museum, Vienna
2005
Heitsch Galerie, Munich
2000
Kultur im Atlanta Huas, Bremen
1995
Italian Institute of Culture for The Netherlands, Amsterdam
1993
Georgetown University, Intercultural Center, Washington D.C.
Group Exhibition
2019
Ludwig Museum in the Sate Russian Museum, St. Petersburg