Artist Statements

I must admit with great frankness and pride that I am honored to "journalistically" satisfy the requests of the witty Travaglio.
When you commission me to do a caricature portrait, I know that the truth will be told, there is no escape, and if it is my caricature that makes everything more true and ironic, well, I can't help but love my job and continue to do it with great professionalism, because everything written above is a confirmation that I am doing well but it is also a reward because I work for real journalism
sorry but it's not much!
Francesco Frank Federighi
in the photo Marco Travaglio and Francesco Federighi

For those who know me well they know how much I caught in the spirit, with this car of mine I testimize that I really save anyone ... .🤣🤣🤣
Self -caricatures, acrylic on canvas 30 × 40 cm
If you also want to be "investigated" by me and you are not afraid then contact me and you will be amazed by how much you know how to catch your soul!

Portrait and caricature of Clint Eastwood, as you can see the photographic reference is the same.
With the portrait it is inevitable, you reach a point that you have to stop - and this for me is a great sacrifice - and from that point forward if you push the caricature emerges, it is inevitable and this is why I chose not to stop, by doing so I manage to explore new and infinite worlds of the human soul, new anatomical forms - even if already suggested by the portrait - and for this reason I choose caricature all my life.
Frank

With the real caricature, gifts to the character portrayed the identity that has always had to light the hidden sides that live in depth.
But the caricaturist has the task of making visible to all these shades
Apparently imperceptible, and does it through the graphic shock, altering the somatic features of the subject targeted.
This is for me to do "caricature"!
Frank

The portrait, the "canonical" one, has always been a pimp towards the subject depicted, it embellishes the features in the soul, moving further and further away from the true subject, therefore I feel like saying that it masks the truth, the caricature does the diametric opposite, through exasperations, it gives the truth of the soul, of the somatic features, revealing tics, grimaces and everything that characterizes a face, here the true caricature serves to unmask, giving light to the true self of the soul and physiognomy, this is why I have always asserted that caricature is the completed journey of the portrait!
Frank

But is the caricature physical or physiognomic?
In this caricature made by Mauro Corona the two things are fused together...
Frank

Federighi's caricatures are state-of-the-art "Bodyshaming"...
Vittorio Feltri

"The caricatures that portray only the face are introspective investigations in which I go to dig in depth, my research starts from the concept of" physiognomic ", I must also say that in my long journey I have met many people who observing my portrait of caricatured tones often exclaim;" It is true it is just like that ", then I understand that I did a good job, but when I myself have the character that I have ascertained that And the original no longer resembles himself, then I understand I have done a great job, this is for me to do real caricature!