Biography
Françoise Calcagno was born in France in 1966. She graduated in Scenography, under Giovanni Soccol, from the Academy of Fine Art, Venice, Italy.
She exposed in several group exhibitions (Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa di Venezia, Laboratorio di Ricerca d’Arte Contemporanea Pardes di Mirano, 12° Biennale Internazionale d’Incisione e delle Nuove Immagini di Sarcelles Val de France etc.) and solo exhibitions with paintings and prints both in Italy and abroad (galleria “Spazio Pisanello“ di Verona, Galleria “Venezia Viva” di Venezia, Palazzo Crepadona di Belluno, Galleria “Arte e Talenti” di Portobuffolè etc.) For several years she has worked with the International Center of Prints in Venice. Since 2005, in the heart of Venice’s Ghetto area, the Art Studio has been open. Where the artist creates and exhibits, but, above all, to initiate dialogues with the city where she lives and works.
The idea of changing is combined to the thought of something that will end or that will turn into something different and that's what fascinate and intimidate the artist, who tries to stop the change by fixing objects, signs and traces on the support.
She states herself "We are made of relationships, we are mostly the result of connections which we create with ourself and the environment. Everything we see is full of material and signs, objects sometimes, life's moments stopped. Maybe all the meaning lies in its examination, in the looking from another point of view, in the finding of another solution. Growth, value, life itself lie in this ability to change, almost anything can be salvaged and transformed to continue living as something else, in another shape, in another landscape".
