LOOSE THREAD: JUST OVERLAPPING THREADS …IN AN ARTISTIC WAY!
Some time ago, we talked about Francesco Marzetti and his “textile intrusions“, about the fantastic characters made in pencil, fabrics, lace, threads and buttons. But this turned out to be only the beginning of a path that led the artist from Bagnoregio to create, in a textile key, famous pictorial works using the “simple” overlap of sewing threads.
Copyright Francesco Marzetti
Copyright Francesco Marzetti
Francesco says that everything was born during a delicate moment of his family life, during time spent in Switzerland for the occasion of the loss of his father-in-law. “Being unable to sit still without creating, in those days the threads were the only material I had available in my mother-in-law’s house, so I made the first work with the blue thread, Munch’s Scream… and just like that I couldn’t stop anymore. The thread that runs on the white surface is positioned, moved, superimposed on threads of other colors until it takes the form of the works of Schiele, Van Gogh, Klimt … “
Copyright Francesco Marzetti
Copyright Francesco Marzetti
Copyright Francesco Marzetti
Copyright Francesco Marzetti
The “Filo Libero” series is enjoying success and appreciation and we look forward to seeing the future developments of this interesting and unprecedented artistic project.
Biography
Francesco Marzetti graduated from the Liceo Artistico Tuscia in Viterbo in 1979. Subsequently he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Lorenzo da Viterbo in “Scenography” and specialized with a two-year course in “History and Restoration of Ceramics” in 1984.
In 1985 he inaugurated an Atelier on the restoration of medieval ceramics, increasingly refining his artistic streak. In the same year he was called by the Municipality of Montefiascone and included in the scientific working committee for the Territorial Museum at the premises of the Rocca dei Papi.
In 1987 he was professor of costume history at the C.E.I.S. “S. Crispino “, in 2005 he created an art school co-financed by the Lazio Region and” Gal degli Etruschi “and where a” project aimed at disability through relationally oriented artistic workshops “was activated in which Marzetti also participates as a teacher of artistic subjects.
