Francesco Frank Federighi will be a guest on September 6th at the prestigious Palazzo del Fumetto in Pordenone, on that date Federighi will hold a Masterclass where he will talk about what caricature represents for him, starting from the canonical portrait to get to caricature, the importance of Sergio Leone and his close-ups, the strength of expressions and much more, so BE THERE!!!
Frank Federighi
Francesco Federighi in Art Frank at a moment during the awards ceremony held last May 10th, the "Cartacea" award is for the career of the well-known Tuscan caricaturist for the work carried out over these years, creating grotesque faces of politics for the major Italian and foreign magazines precisely "Cartacee", the award in question is a magnificent work made by the expert hands of the master tank driver Cinquini.
Social denunciation has always existed, especially in painting, but I believe that my tiredness in always reproducing it in the way now seen and withdrawn in the history of art, has led me to find a "new" way of representing the contemporary, less rhetorical, sharper and more ironic, the project consists in introducing the animal, it works and marries with man, it is a huge project that develops between one caricature and another, I plan to produce a hundred of them…
The weapon for him - always - is pencil and brush. Francesco Frank Federighi, a caricaturist from Lucca by passion and by profession, is the one who "lit up" the front pages of important national newspapers with the scratch of satire on "canvas", underlining the main political and current events. And tomorrow, Saturday 23 April at 1730, he will present his first Book to Pinturicchio in via delle Tagliate in San Marco, Lucca. The title is already a program: "Gianmario eat like a goat", Porto Seguro edition with a preface by Marco Travaglio, the introduction by Vittorio Feltri and interventions by Dario Ballantini.
“It's not me who chose the caricature but she who chose me – says Frank -. In my life I've done more than 300 since, precisely, that spark clicked on me. I was 10 years old, I was having lunch with my family and their friends, when at a certain point I could no longer take my eyes off little Gianmario, who was chewing on his food. Suddenly I exclaimed "Gianmario you eat like a goat". At the moment the frost fell, my first grumbled at me then in the car we laughed without brakes. An instinct that, from that moment on, has “possessed” me
In my life I have made more than 300 caricatures, many commissioned”. Frank Federighi attended the Passaglia art school.
“Even there I didn't spare the profs. But I learned a lot. At school I had one of the greatest masters, Muscatello who knew how to find spectacular colors in the palette".
A passion that has always been also work: as a very young man he already worked for II Tirreno and for L'Espresso, today he has a painting of his exhibited at the Meam museum in Barcelona, the "Atto di Bullismo a Giovanni" reinterpretation of the work of Caravaggio. And tomorrow at 17.30 at Pinturicchio Frank Federighi will present his first book "the dream of a lifetime" as Frank says. A dream that also landed on “Striscia” last Monday (see photo with Gerry Scotti).
