Francesco De Bernardi

Vimercate, 1995

Francesco De Bernardi

Vimercate, 1995

Francesco De Bernardi lives and works in Milan. His practice is rooted in the observation of everyday life, of common situations that provide the primary material the artist extrapolates in order to present it again, condensed into micro narratives or objects that evoke real life experience. His work is developed through the use of different media and materials, including texts, ceramics, artist draws mainly on his own background and autobiographical experiences, focusing in particular on the apparently banal and comical details of everyday life.

The scenes and characters taken from reality show their weaknesses and contradictions, their irresolute side, concerning their personality, crushed and fed by hyperquestioning, hypochondria and the consequent melancholy, which characterises the artist’s gaze and production.

The feeling of melancholy permeates De Bernardi’s installations which present a world in miniature as if observed from far away.

Selected solo and duo exhibitions

2024

Superb visibility all around, duo show, La Placette, Lausanne CH
2023

Getting attached to (…) is difficult (with a text by Iacopo Spini), Triangolo, Cremona

Your ease doesn’t simplify things/your ease is not making it easier (curated by Camille Besson and Haydeé Marin-Lopez), Café des Glaces, Tonnerre, FR
2022

Il più bell’errore del mondo, duo show with Valentina Pini (curated by Gabriel Stoekli and Giacomo Galletti), Sonnestube, Lugano CH
2020

Domenica, duoshow show with Giovanna Belossi (proposed by Paul Paillet), Lokal-int, Biel/Bienne, CH

Selected group exhibitions

2022

Prison Break (curated by Hruze Gegi), Winterthur, CH

The September Issues (curated by Mohamed Almusibli), Peres Project, Milan

Break-In, Brescia (curated by Arnold Braho), The Adress gallery, Brescia
2021

Adaptation I-Weary Friends, duoshow with Leonardo Pellicanò (curated by Stefania Carlotti and Margaux Dewarra) 13, Renens (Lausanne), CH

Supporters (curated by Matteo De Nando), Palmanova 187, Milano

Lemaniana, Reflets d’autres scenes (curated by Andrea Bellini, Mohamed Almusibli, Jill Gasparina and Stéphanie Moisdon), Centre d’Art Contemporaine Geneve, CH

Casette per Uccelli (curated by Margaux Dewarrat), Basecamp, Locarno CH
2019

Usefulless (curated by Mélanie Matranga and Clément Délepine), Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris, FR