Franchesca is a multidisciplinary artist. Born in Mexico city, educated Italy, France and New York, she obtained her B.A in Educational Drama and Communications from New York University. Since the challenging 2020, a year the forced all of us to reinvent our lives, she took a leap in her creative carreer, embracing design and drawing. She holds a degree in Set Design from Unviersidad Centro, the Milan Art Institute and has taken several courses at the Florence Art Academy in Mexico under the direction of Michele Bajona.
Since she was a young student, she held a strong interest in social concerns. In New York, she was mostly involved in theatre community projects in order to help children, teens and senior adults. Later on, she was involved in several humanitarian initiatives related to the arts, architecture, culture, peace, health and education.
Artist statement
Beauty will save the world. Dostoyevski.
My love for rennaisance style and perennial principles in design is rooted in my child memories in Rome with my Italian family. I celebrate stunning beauty in nature and human form. shapes and archetypal symbols.
I enjoy charcoal for its simplicity. I love to be able to create anywhere outside of my studio, combining it with the media that allows me to express wherever I am. I believe that no matter how much the use of digital gadgets, applications, specialized software and artifical intelligence unfolds in our lives, we may always go back to the luxury of using simple tools to create such as paper and charcoal.
I believe creativity is nature’s creativity. This is at the core of what drives me to embrace my creative impulses and curiosities. I became particularly obsessed with the scientific view of creativity from an evolutionary point of view when I came accross the work of Brian Swimme and Amit Goswami. Finding meaning and purpose in the creative process became a primordial drive in my own life.