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1. LAMENTATION, 2020 oil on canvas 40x60 cm. Diptych. Price £5760
2. CLOSE BONDS, 2020 oil on canvas 60x40 cm. Diptych. Price £5760
3. DESIRE WITH ANTICIPATION, 2020 oil on canvas 40x60 cm. Diptych.
Price £5760
4. EMERGING, 2020 oil on canvas 30X40 cm. Price £3520
5. HOPE, 2020 oil on canvas 40x60 cm. Diptych. Price £5760
6. LAYERS OF COMFORT, 2019 oil on canvas 36x48 cm. Price £4200
7. MUTUAL CARE, 2019 oil on canvas 36X48 cm. Price £4200
8. PROTECTIVE INTROSPECTION, 2019 oil on canvas 36X48 cm. Price
£4200
9. REPAIRING THE WRONGS, 2020 oil on canvas 30X40 cm. Price £3520
10. RECONCILIATION I, 2019 oil on canvas 36X48 cm. Price £4200
11. RECONCILIATION II, 2020 oil on canvas 36X48 cm. Price £4200
12. SAFE FROM HARM oil on canvas 36X48 cm. Price £4200
13. CHILDREN IN A CITY, oil on canvas 30X40 in. | 76.2x101.6 cm.
14. CITY OF DREAMS, oil on canvas 30X40 cm.
15. DANCE, oil on canvas 30X40 in. | 76.2x101.6 cm.
16. DESIRE AND LONGING, oil on canvas 30X40 in. | 76.2x101.6 cm.
17. DREAMERS, oil on canvas 30X40 in. | 76.2x101.6 cm.
18. EARLY MORNING, oil on canvas 30X40 in. | 76.2x101.6 cm.
19. LUNA,
oil on canvas 30X40 in. | 76.2x101.6 cm.
20. MIDSUMMER, oil on canvas 30X40 in. | 76.2x101.6 cm.
21. RURAL MYTHS, oil on canvas 30X40 in. | 76.2x101.6 cm.
22. STORM, oil on canvas 30X40 in. | 76.2x101.6 cm.
23.THE BATHER, oil on canvas 30X40 in. | 76.2x101.6 cm.
24. THE SENTINEL, oil on canvas 30X40 in. | 76.2x101.6 cm. |
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Gallery representation
2019 – present: Tension Fine Art, London, UK
2019 – present: Emillions Art, Naples, Florida, USA
2014 – present: Jarsbo Contemporary Art, Aalborg, Denmark
2010 – present: JKL gallery, Winwick, UK
2014 – 2018: Ludwig Trossaert Galerie, Antwerp, Belgium
2006 – 2013: Gagliardi Gallery, London, UK
2000 – 2006: Artlands Gallery, Hillington, Norfolk, UK
1992 – 1999: The Heifer Gallery, London, UK
Collections
Yukyung Art Museum, Haegeumgang, South Korea
Ærø Kunsthal, Ærøskøbing, Denmark
Museo d'Arte di Chianciano Terme, Italy
Gauguin Museum of Tahiti, French Polynesia
Solo exhibitions
2014/16/18/19 – Galerie Ludwig Trossaert, Antwerp, Belgium
2007 – Gagliardi Gallery, London, UK
2003/04 – Artlands Gallery, London, UK
2000 – Sylvia White Gallery, New York, USA
1999 – Galerie La Capitale, Paris, France
1994 – Heifer Gallery, London, UK
1992 – Bloomsbury Gallery, London, UK
1992 – Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
1991 – Hall Richards Gallery, London, UK
1988 – Galerie Atlante, Paris, France
Selected group exhibitions
2020__Art Number 23 Gallery, “New Era’,UK
2020—The Holy Art Gallery, “The Metamorphosis”, UK
2020__Contemporary Art Station, “New Era”, Japan
2020—Moon Space art gallery, “Seeking the Source”, USA
2020—Contemporary Art Curator, “New Horizons”, Spain
2020 – Arts in Color Gallery, “Humanity in Quarantine”, USA
2020 – FMB Art Gallery, “Pride by your side”, Italy
2020 -- Langley Arts Council, “Across the Distance’, Canada
2019 – Contemporary Art Station, Tokyo Art Fair, Japan
2019 – International Art Fair - Kunst Schimmer 7, Ulm, Germany
2019 – Swiss Art Expo, Artbox Project Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2019 – Yukyung Art Museum, Haegeumgand Museum, South Korea
2019 – Jarsboart Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 – Art Expo New York, Mecenavie Gallery, USA
2018 – PAKS Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2018 – Museum of Art & Design, New York, USA
2017 – Galerie Thuillier, Paris, France
2017 – Spectrum Miami: World Wide Art, USA
2016 – Colorida Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2015 – Gallery JKL, Cambridge, UK
2015 – Galerie BDMC, Brussels, Belgium
2013 – Agora Gallery, New York, USA
Selected awards
2019 – Honorary Master Award: The World of Art, UK
2018 – Honorable Mention Award: Circle Foundation, USA
2018 – The Honorary Award of Distinction: Art Addiction Museum, UK
2018 – ATIM Masters Award: ATIM Masters of Contemporary Art, USA
2016 – Honorable Award: Art Addiction Museum, UK
2015 – Honorable Award: Artavita Gallery, USA
2008 – Gold Medal: Beijing Olympics Fine Art, China
1989 – Knight of the Arts: Academy Greco-Marino, Italy
1985 – Bronze Medal: Mairie 17eme Paris, France
1985 – Gold Medal: Institute of French Culture, France
1984 – Eugene Fromentin Award: Federation Latin, France
1982 – Golden Painting of the Year: Institute of French Culture,
France
1982 – Bronze Medal: Biennial Villeneuve-Loubet, France
1981 – Silver Medal: Grand Prix of Rome, Italy
Selected publications
2020 – Who’s Who in Visual Art: 100 Top Fine Artists of Our Day,
Whoisverlag, Germany
2020 – Art Collector’s Choice, Contemporary Art Station, Japan
2019 – 100 Artists of the Future, Contemporary Art Curator, Spain
2019 – Who’s Who in Art, Morven Press, UK
2018 – The Middle East Art Collector, Dubai
2018 – Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art, Arttout International
Publications, USA
2017 – Art UpClose World Edition, USA
2017 – A Survey of Contemporary Art, Art UpClose, USA
2017 – MAMAG Museum Collections, Heinz Playner, Austria
2017 – Art Professional: 33 Contemporary Artists, Masters of Today,
UK
2015 – Contemporary Art Guide, Salvatore Russo, Italy
2012 – Art in Vogue, Masters of Today, UK
2010 – Dictionary of International Biographies, Nicholas S Law, UK
1987 – L’Officiel Art, Editions du Chevalet, France
Residencies
2001- 03 – In the steps of Gauguin: A collaboration between Artlands
Gallery, Tahiti Tourisme, Air New Zealand and Transpacific Holidays
to mark the centenary of Gauguin’s death.
Involved two three week trips to Tahiti to conduct an in-depth study
of the impact of Tahiti’s people, culture and environment on
Gauguin’s work from his final years, culminating in an exhibition at
The Churchill Intercontinental Hotel in London.
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“Art expresses a fundamental part of what it means to be human. It
is through art that the conflicts of life can be explored, better
understood, brought to the surface and put into new relations with
each other. I believe we are living in a time of unprecedented
breakdown in human relationships and interactions, stretching from
the individual and personal level to the geopolitical end of the
spectrum. We tend to think of interactivity in terms of technology
these days rather than as human feeling and connection.
My art is meant to directly challenge this state of affairs and
re-invigorate and re-inspire the emotional and spiritual dimensions
of human life. This is inevitably in direct conflict with much of
what we see around us in our world now.”
Francesco Ruspoli’s work is an exploration of relational space and
its shifting possibilities within the contemporary world in which we
all dwell. It explores the dynamic frontier between abstraction and
figuration, keeping alive the infinite possibilities of being human
in an age intent upon limiting them. Here is a certain defiant
romanticism that insists that emotions are precious, that meaning is
creative and that there is a world beyond commodities.
Using a strikingly vibrant palette, each painting presents a
symphonic dance of colour where subtle gradation and dramatic
contrast express nuances of emotion and sensuous physicality. It
offers a timely reminder of our shared embodied life with its hopes
and dreams, pain and loss, and the poignancy of yearning. Thus, the
eternal human dance of reaching out and holding back is movingly
enacted - with the viewer included.
The work expresses the direct sensation of lived experience through
organic shapes and forms woven from flowing lines and the gaze of
the viewer. You are invited to participate in a creative encounter
with these elements, constructing your own visual languages,
responses and meanings. From this aesthetic encounter, urgent
questions will arise about the quality of engagement between humans
and their many environments. It is hoped there also follows an
increased sense of wonder at your own capacity for re-interpretation
and invention that will uplift both you and the world in which you
live: this is the very essence of hope.
The relational concern of his work embraces all viewers: your
interpretations are as equally valid as his. The very act of seeing
is to enter a relationship. This is why the figures in his work are
placed so viscerally in relation to each other, and why it
stimulates a shared reflection on relatedness.
A vital part of interpretation is our emotional response, which is
not solely the preserve of a ‘refined’ academic elite. The
experience of being together is the essence of his work, so he hopes
his work is able to share that precise experience with you. You
could say his message, theme and vision is to co-create an
experience of emotional connection, whatever it happens to be on
that precise moment of that particular day,
with you – here – in this space together.
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Art expresses a fundamental part of what it means to be human. It is
through art that the conflicts of life can be explored, better
understood, brought to the surface and put into new relationships
with each other. I believe we are living in an unprecedented time of
the breakdown in human relationships and interactions.
This is happening from the individual and personal level to the
opposite geopolitical end of the spectrum. We tend to think of
interactivity in terms of technology these days rather than as human
feeling and connection.
My art is meant to directly challenge this state of affairs so to
re-invigorate and re-inspire the emotional and spiritual dimensions
of human life, which are inevitably in direct conflict with much of
what we see around us in our world now. These are central question
not just of what art is, but of what art does, and can or even
should do.
The biggest frustration has been struggling against a system that
attempts to codify what sells, thereby killing creativity and
individual expression. It has taken me many years to find my
creative voice, and a large part of this has been a struggle against
such commercial forces. They are very powerful and insidious, and
institutionally dismiss or ignore what they lack the capacity to
appreciate or understand.
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