Francesco Minuti is an Italian Artist, born in Cosenza in 1992.
He graduated from the Liceo Artistico Statale of Cosenza, obtained a Degree in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Catanzaro and did an internship at the academy of Madrid and at the Museo del Prado.
He has always attended the studio of his father, Maestro Diego Minuti, where he trained by learning the secrets of the techniques used by the great masters of the past, reinterpreting their concepts in a contemporary key. The techniques he uses are very varied, such as oil painting, the use of extra-pictorial materials, sculptures created with recycled materials of any origin.
Recovering the tradition of Renaissance portraiture and mixing it with the expressive urgencies of contemporaneity, his work is placed on the dividing line between physiognomic and psychoanalytic thought. It is a synthesis between a classical formal vocabulary, all played on the balance of plastic values, on mimetic fidelity and a chiaroscuro language, capable of interpreting the lesson of seventeenth-century Caravaggism in the light of a contradictory modern sensibility.
Thanks to the development of a stylistic signature, very distant from the recurring stylistic features of the new figuration, he thus conducts his investigation into the expressive potential of the body through a gallery of extreme human typologies, struggling against the annihilation of madness, illness, social difficulties such as migration, old age and death.
The painted characters or some fragments of them, tell, through the body, the eternal conflict between good and evil, of the world and of one’s own soul.
In his latest research, which is enriched thanks to the numerous journeys made with the eyes of an Anthropologist, the attention towards physiognomy and in general, for the mimesis of characters, turning towards a contained drama, renouncing theatricality, but reflecting more on the expressive potential of the individual.
The classical elements, however, are transfigured by the force of an energetic, solid and vibrant painting, by the corrosions and oxidations of acids and fire, which pierces the barrier of time to give us back intact the centrality of the human figure, indissoluble fusion of soma and psyche.
He tells us about the deafening silence of human brutality through portraits of children, women, men or ancient paintings that tell thousands of stories, places and eras corroded by the carelessness of man.
He has participated in numerous awards and art exhibitions in Italy, Spain, Hungary, the United Arab States and the USA.