Biography
Francesca Montinaro lives and works in Rome. She is a multimedia artist who along her artistic path has chosen different places and media to express herself. Her work in fact combines conceptual art with TV shows for its expressive purposes, in a personal research for an effective modern language.
Francesca has worked for several years as a TV scenographer and has innovated the concepts of scenography in Italy by introducing strong and engaging visual installations in the scenographic space. She believes the TV anchor-men are modern commanders who lead armies of audience and the single protagonist and the masses of audience as well are, in her projects, not only visual and pictorial presences but living entities.
So far her realized projects are 134, among which:
“Lo Strappo” for Sanremo Festival 2013 (one of the major media event in Italy, a music festival broadcasted since 1951);
“Audience” in Al ballo scuro,
“Occupy” in Quello che (non) ho,
"La foresta vergine" in Le invasioni barbariche,
"La parola a tutti" in Vieni via con me,
"L’incombenza" in Piazza Pulita.
Francesca's work has no real nor conceptual boundaries between theatre and traditional exhibitive spaces but it evolves with the only purpose to communicate her point of view creating emotional places to be experienced by the public.
Her previos art installation, Wonderful, made of 52 original interactive films, was exhibited at the 54th Venice Biennale, 2011, Padiglione Italia 2012, in Digital Life 4th edition, at the Macro and at the Rome Europe Festival 2012.
Francesca Montinaro was also professor of Video Installation at the Accademy of Belle Arti in Rome and at IED, Rome; since 2010 she teaches Multimedial Scenography at the Academy of Belle Arti in Carrara.
