ARTIST STATEMENT

My research is about me, time, memory and past.
I work combining photography, painting and other things.

BIOGRAPHY

Franco Monari was born in Italy in 1981 where he currently lives and works.
In his work Monari treats questions concerning time passing and memory, and he
investigates on the impact of technologies on society and how they have radically
change the way we perceive the reality and recorded the past. Monari’s practice
combines photography, internet, animated gif, painting and objects, creating a work
intensely personal and biographical. He has published in 2008 “Memore”, his first
photography book. His work has received several awards and he has partecipated in
several exhibitions in private galleries and public cultural associations in Italy and
abroad.