Enzo FARAONI (S. Stefano Magra, La Spezia 1920 – Impruneta, Florence 2017)
Enzo Faraoni is a great painter and engraver from Florence; he expresses the poetic everyday life of simple and concrete things throughout a delicate chromatic range. Among his numerous and prestigious exhibitions in Italy and abroad, there are the Biennali:
1948 Biennale Arte, Venice
1950 Biennale Arte, Venice
1954 Biennale Arte, Venice
1955 Biennale Arte, Venice
1956 Biennale Arte, Venice
1957 Italian Contemporary Engraving Biennale, Venice
1959 Italian Contemporary Engraving Biennale, Venice
1959-61 The Parker Exhibition of Contemporary Italian Painting, New York, Chicago, S.Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Dallas
1961 Italian Contemporary Engraving Biennale, Venice
1968 Italian Contemporary Engraving Biennale, Venice
1982 International Graphic Biennale, Seoul
Among the official exhibitions:
2022 Enzo Faraoni 1920 – 2017. Dipinti dalla casa – studio dell’Impruneta, Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence
2019 Enzo Faraoni, Palazzo Lomellini, Carmagnola, Turin
2014 Enzo Faraoni. Un “antico” maestro d’oggi, Palazzo Comunale e Chiesa San Giusto, Sesto Fiorentino (Fi)
2013 Enzo Faraoni. Dipinti, Comune di Impruneta, Firenze
2011 Natura e verità nella pittura di Enzo Faraoni, Galleria d’Arte Moderna – Palazzo Pitti, Florence
2011 Enzo Faraoni. Il carico del segno, Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence
2001 Enzo Faraoni. Figure, Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence.
Maria Pagnini is the author of “La pace della sera. Biografia di Enzo Faraoni, pittore” (The peace of the evening. Biography of Enzo Faraoni, painter), Florence, Soleombra Ed.
In 2014 Altralinea Ed. publishes the anthology of critics Enzo Faraoni, painter and engraver by Maria Coli.
MUSEUMS
Firenze, Uffizi – Department of Prints and Drawings
Firenze, Uffizi – Selfportraits Collection
Firenze, Pitti Palace – Galleria d’Arte Moderna
Firenze, Musei Civici Fiorentini
Monsummano Terme, Pistoia – Museo di Arte Contemporanea e del Novecento
Works by Enzo Faraoni are permanently dealt by the Pirra Art Gallery and are published in monographs edited by the Gallery.