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BIOGRAPHY
Francesca Leone was born in Rome into a family of artists. Her father Sergio
is the renowned film director of several masterpieces of International
cinematography, and her mother was the first ballerina at the Teatro dell’Opera
in Rome. After completing a Scenography Design course at the Fine Arts
Academy of Rome, Francesca Leone decides to dedicate herself to painting.
She specialises in painting and graduates with professor Lino Tardia at the
Rome University of Fine Arts. In 2007, she participates in an exhibition curated
by Claudio Strinati for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at
the Capitoline Museums in Rome. Her first solo exhibition is held in Palermo,
at the Loggiato di San Bartolomeo, in April 2008. Together with Bonalumi,
Gallo, Guccione and Mitoraj, Francesca is invited to create a work for the
exhibition “Galilei Divine Man” which opened in December 2008 at the Basilica
of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome, on initiative of the World
Federation of Scientists. At the end of 2008, Palazzo Venezia dedicates her
a solo exhibition, curated once again by Claudio Strinati, and in March 2009,
she is invited by the Municipality of Naples to exhibit her work at the Castel
dell’Ovo.
In June 2009, she exhibits the portrait of the composer Ennio Morricone, who
received the prestigious “Mc Kim Medal 2009” award by the American
Academy in Rome. In July 2009, she is invited by the curator, Maurizio Calvesi,
to participate in an exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA)
in Moscow. On this occasion, Francesca is nominated Honorary Member of
the Russian Art Academy and was designated with this honour by the President
of the Academy, Zurab Tsereteli.
In March 2010, Galleria Valentina Moncada hosts a solo exhibition dedicated
to her, entitled “Flussi Immobili”. The same month, Francesca participates in
the exhibition “Contemporary Art for the Temple of Zeus”, held in the
magnificent Archaeological Park of the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento
together with the works of fifty other international artists, among whom Afro,
Arman, Mimmo Jodice, Hermann Nitsch, Daniel Spoerri.
For the 150 th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, Francesca is commissioned
to create a work to celebrate Giuseppe Garibaldi, for the exhibition “Giuseppe
Garibaldi...Tutt’altra Italia io sognavo” (Giuseppe Garibaldi...I dreamed of a
completely different Italy), held at at the National Museum of Castel
Sant’Angelo in Rome. Her portrait was chosen as the iconic image of the
exhibition and was on view from September 2010 to April 2011.
In 2011, Francesca was invited to participate in the 54 th International Art
Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Italian Pavilion.
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