As an engineer and painter, Viola had the privilege of witnessing the controversial but very fruitful encounter between art and science. During his artistic career he has thoroughly studied and experimented with color and its laws in order to grasp the concept of the sublime. His pictorial language also encompasses lines rich in intensity and completeness. Since his first watercolors and later in his oil paintings, Franco Viola has created landscapes by combining reality and the inner world. He tries to transfer the emotion and the sublime of the untouched reality on the canvas. A continuous process that accompanies thoughts about the nature of painting in the age of modernity and its relationship with place, time and the ever-changing social and human conditions. It is a rethinking of nature, in the context of a cognitive and emotional flow.
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 AndalucĂa, 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