Francesco Fonassi

Francesco Fonassi (1986) is an artist and sonic researcher who works in several artistic fields. Within an ethical relation and attention towards the knowledge and the other, Fonassi’s artistic practice focuses on the perception’s dynamics and phenomenons, leading the real bumping into its own systems of separation and relation which express a common feeling. By his practice and the listening experience, he would like to analyze and study the human being behaviors and see how people react when exposed to situations such as aggression, isolation, interruption. In fact, using sound as the main medium, he believes that the sonic experience could create both active and passive relationships beyond which marking sharing places. Through actions, recordings, environmental configurations, radio transmissions, listening/audiovisual sessions and sensorial spaces, Fonassi conceives the space for a series of subjects who are no more passive but, on the contrary, percipient and susceptible of creating a unique collective experience, both social and acoustic.

His work has been presented in many different relevant art venues, both national and international. Among them: Palais de Tokyo, Parigi; MAXXI, Roma; CoCA, Torun; Viafarini DOCVA e CareOf, Milano; The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York; Fargfabriken, Stoccolma; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino; Fondazione Memmo, Auditorium Parco della Musica e Macro, Roma; Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia; MAG, Riva del Garda; Museo Pecci, Milano. He was one of the finalists of Furla award (2015) and LUM award (2011). He won the 6Artista award (2012). Among the various participations, festivals, residencies: BB15, Linz; Blockhaus DY10, Nantes; Bunker, Torino; DKSG Galerija e Remont Gallery, Belgrado; A Certain Lack Of Coherence, Porto; Glassbox, Parigi; LocaleDUE, Bologna; Sarajevo Winter Festival, Sarajevo; Bjcem, Skopje; Q16 – Quadriennale di Roma. Tra i programmi di residenza: Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Parigi; Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Roma, Citè Internationale des Arts, Parigi; Atelier BLM, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia; Real Presence 2007-2010, Belgrado – Castello di Rivoli, Torino.