Giuseppe Del Franco retrospective in Bologna spans painting, photography, installation

A retrospective exhibition in Bologna showcases the multidisciplinary work of Giuseppe Del Franco (Chieti, 1946‒Carpi, 2013), an artist who moved across painting, photography, and installation. Active from the 1960s to 1970s, Del Franco pushed beyond the physical object, engaging with societal radicalism. His oeuvre includes distorted faces, material collages, intensely colored abstract landscapes, and a photographic technique that deliberately uses blur to create doubling and superimposition effects, questioning the subject and redefining its formal essence. Following a behaviorist thread, his abstract lines investigate mass society's increasingly problematic relationship with reality, marked by self-referentiality. He also ventured into dreamlike realms that amplify color's power.