Andrea Crabs, artist, film-maker, curator and lecturer, was born in Florence in 1947. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1969, won the Florence City Prize for young artists in 1966 and the Stibbert Prize for painting in 1971. He is recognised as one of the protagonists of Italian Art CinemaHe has produced numerous works "...among the most lucid, ironic, perfect artist's films, a genre that in Italy he was one of the first to carry out..." (L.V. Masini, 1989), and curated international exhibitions (1976-80) both in Italy and abroad (Paris Centre G. Pompidou, Philadelphia). His numerous participations include the Venice Biennale (1978 and 2011), the Milan Triennale (1981) and the Rome Quadriennale (1986), Italian Art Today (Stockolm 1987), Estecne (Valencia, Palau de La Scala, 1990), Artist Cinema in Tuscany (L. Pecci Centre, Prato, 2004),Travellers on the Flaminia (Museum of Emigration, Gualdo Tadino, 2006). Among the most recent are those for The expanded gaze. Italian Artist Cinema 1912-2012 in Catanzaro (2012) and Light. Science Cinema Art (Palazzo del Governatore, Parma, 2015). In 2017, two of his films were acquired by MAXXI in Rome on the occasion of "Double Screen. Artist's films and videos in Italy from the 1960s to today"edited by B. Di Marino.
Personal exhibitions include they remember Chaser of Giants at Palazzo Pinucci in Florence (1989), The man chasing the shadow in Lugano (1989), Oblique journeys at the Tour Fromage in Aosta (1993), Parallel destinies at CART in Falconara Marittima (2009), L'Adret and L'Envers held in the Castle of S. Rhémy-en-Bosses for the Aosta Valley Region with works from 1967 to 2010, the articulated anthological exhibition entitled The place where destinies meet in the Pinacoteca Civica di Volterra (2013) and the recent solo exhibition Real Estate Travel at the Galleria del Carbone in Ferrara (2019). He has various works in buildings and public places, including the 'eyes' of the two apsidal windows of the Church of the Magdalene in Saturnia (1996) the fresco with Saint Lucy guardian of charity realised for the Jubilee of 2000 in the church of S. Giuseppe e Lucia in Florence, the installation Sedentary traveller in front of the Great realised for the 'Museo a Cielo Aperto' of the Etroubles Municipality in the Aosta Valley (2005).
Like lecturer was for a long time holder of the Chair of Painting at the Fine Arts Academies of Carrara and Florence, where he also held the 'New Expressive Languages' Workshop until 2012, for which he initiated a new line of research on the 'Artist's Book' with a series of exhibitions including Object LIBERo (Florence State Archives, 2007). In 2010 he conceived and edited City of Arts Trajectories with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, the Conservatorio Cherubini, the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche and the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, interweaving contemporary art productions with art-historical seminars, musical events and concerts.
In 2017, in China, on the occasion of the 'Phoenix Art Exhibition' in the City of Fenghuang, curated by the China National Academy of Painting, he was awarded the 'Phoenix Art Award'. He also dealt extensively and actively with the problems of conservation and restorationfirst with his father Vittorio (Florence 1908-1992) and then with his son Giacomo (Florence 1974), carrying out numerous interventions on works protected by the State since the 1980s, in collaboration with the territorial Superintendencies and also actively working in the Siena and Grosseto areas. In 2008 he was appointed by the Faculty of Architecture in Florence to hold the course on "Conservation of Decorated Surfaces of Monuments". He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the new "Polo Culturale Pietro Aldi" opened in Saturnia in 2016.
He is currently the President of the 'Painting Class' of the Academy of Design Arts.
Andrea Granchi, son of art
Andrea is the son of Vittorio Granchi (Florence 20 October 1908 - 30 November 1992), master of the Florentine School of Restoration. Vittorio was born into a family with deep artistic traditions whose activity has been known since the 19th century. He was trained first in the workshop of his father Pasquale (1870-1930), a talented Florentine 'artiere' specialised in 'antique imitations' and carved and gilded furniture, and then in the 1920s at the Art Institute of Porta Romana in Florence under the guidance of Luigi Cavalieri and Giacomo Lolli. His long artistic career, intertwined with his better-known career as a restorer, was marked by awards and numerous exhibitions both in Italy and abroad. Paintings and drawings by Vittorio Granchi are today kept in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Palazzo Pitti, the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno and the Uffizi Gallery.
Vittorio Granchi's significant contribution is attested by the many interventions he conducted on paintings in the major Florentine museums and galleries, as the long list of restorations he carried out documents. From 1934, when he was called by Ugo Procacci to join the team of the newly established Restoration Cabinet of the Superintendency of the Florentine Galleries, he worked there until 1973, conducting restorations that are considered historic, such as those in the immediate post-war period, to Vasari's panels in the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio, and the many in that extremely difficult period of work following the tragic flood of Florence in 1966, which saw him as the protagonist of countless 'rescues' of seriously damaged works, among which the one on Cimabue's Crucifix stands out for 'high surgery' (Umberto Baldini 1992). This intervention earned Vittorio the Alinari Prize that was awarded to him in 1991 shortly before his death.
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