Biography
Andrea Granchi was born in Florence on June 11, 1947 In the same city he studied art and graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in the School of Ugo Capocchini (1969). Winner of the scholarship for young artists of the City of Florence (1966) and Stibbert Prize for Painting (1971). As a teacher, has long been Professor of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara and, later, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where he also held the "Workshop of New Expressive Languages" of the MA Degree of II level for which he has designed over the years a new line of research on the "artist's book." Actually Granchi is President of the "Class of Painting" of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno. And 'recognized among the leaders of the "Cinema Artist', a field in which he created many works, he was invited to the Venice Biennale (1978) and instructed to treat international events for the City of Florence (The Hand of the Eye, 1978, Cine Qua Non, 1979), at the Centre Pompidou for the Cinémathèque Française in Paris (Cinema d'artista and experimental film in Italy from 1960 to 1978), Philadelphia (Cinema d'artista, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1980-81) . And 'invited to the Biennale di Milano (1974) at the Milan Triennale (1981) and the Quadrennial in Rome (1986). Numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, from Lugano to Stockholm, from Valencia to Hamburg. E 'among the first to realize the work that combines sculptural elements with projections of moving images, films, photographs and sound (The cheerful and thoughtful for "Rooms enchanted", Milan, 1980, The Turkish and Italian, film -Opera for "Square Ball", Florence, 1980, the Inventor and the follower, film installation for the Milan Triennale, 1981; design time, Pinacoteca Civica di Volterra, 2013 Among the most significant personal exposures are reported Andrea Crabs. oblique Travel curated at the Tour Fromage by LV- Masini and Janus (catalog Fabbri Editori, 1993), L'Envers et l'Adret, set up in 2010 in the Castle of S. Rhémy-en-Bosses edited by a . Parrella for the region Valle d'Aosta and exposure anthology Andrea Crabs. the place where destinies meet, set up in 2013, edited by N. Micieli in the Pinacoteca Civica di Volterra. Much careful to play structural and technical construction of 'work recovers, between the 80s and 90s, even the technique of "..sperimentando techniques, materials, supports the" old ", but totally renewed" (LV Masini, 1993), also with three-dimensional outcomes, halfway between pictorial art and sculpture. In 2011, on the recommendation of G. Di Genova is invited to "The state of the art. Regions of Italy "for Pavilion Italy (Tuscany), the 54th Venice Biennale. Released in 1989 by the Church of G. monograph Andrea Crabs. Irony and Transparency, (Electa, 1989). E 'included in the volume of Lara-Vinca Masini Contemporary Art: The line of the Model, vol. IV, Giunti, Florence, 1997, p. 690-692, and more recently in the volume forties Generation of Art History Italian '900 - for generations of Giorgio Di Genova, Volume I-II, published by Bora, Bologna, 2009 and in the volume “Lo Sguardo Espanso. Cinema d’artista italiano 1912-2012” edited by Bruno Di Marino, Marco Meneguzzo and Andrea La Porta (2013).
