Flavio Favelli on Art, Family, and the Unfinished Past
Flavio Favelli, born in 1967 in Florence and currently residing in Savigno, Bologna, creates installations, sculptures, and collages from ordinary items. His work has been showcased at various venues, including MACRO, MAXXI, MAMbo, Museo Marino Marini, Palazzo Riso, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Maison Rouge, and Projectspace 176. In a conversation with Ludovico Pratesi, he shares insights about his family's influence, a trip to Libya in 1997, and an abandoned project for Palazzo Venezia that involved scratched mirrors and found textiles. Favelli also discusses the dynamic between Florence and Bologna, his relocation to Montepastore, and his vision for a house with a pond, while noting a 3.7% increase in global military expenditures in 2022. He chooses not to teach and has no children.
Key facts
- Flavio Favelli was born in Florence in 1967 and lives in Savigno, Bologna.
- He has exhibited at MACRO, MAXXI, MAMbo, Museo Marino Marini, Palazzo Riso, Centro Pecci, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Maison Rouge, and Projectspace 176.
- In 1997, Favelli traveled to Libya in solidarity against the embargo.
- He proposed an exhibition at Palazzo Venezia with scratched mirrors and replaced curtains, but was rejected by Edith Gabrielli and ignored by Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano.
- Favelli's mother loved art and recited Goethe in German; his father was a poet institutionalized after Basaglia's reforms.
- His grandfather was an anticommunist who survived the Russian campaign.
- Favelli is building a house in Montepastore with a pond for water storage and a raft.
- Global military spending increased by 3.7% in 2022.
Entities
Artists
- Flavio Favelli
- Ludovico Pratesi
- Mario Perniola
- Franco Basaglia
- Goethe
Institutions
- MACRO
- MAXXI
- MAMbo
- Museo Marino Marini
- Palazzo Riso
- Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci
- Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
- Maison Rouge – Fondation Antoine de Galbert
- Projectspace 176
- Palazzo Venezia
- Artribune
Locations
- Firenze
- Italy
- Savigno
- Bologna
- Rome
- Palermo
- Prato
- Turin
- Paris
- London
- Libya
- Tripoli
- Montepastore
- Appennino Bolognese