Franco Cervi was born in Milan in 1968. For over ten years he worked with the studios Sottsass Associati and Matteo Thun & Partners. In 2006 he founded the publishing company 279 Editions, after which he began his own artistic practice. Cervi’s research focuses on the essence of existential thought: man’s way of being is formulated in its various aspects through numerical decoding that becomes the genetic mapping of infinity. On a formal level, the work expresses the boundary beyond which no further simplification is possible, the point in which concept and form coincide in a resolving synthesis. Cervi lives and works in Milan.
Education
1994
Degree in Architecture, Politecnico di Milano
1986
High school diploma, Liceo Artistico Statale di Brera, Milan
Selected solo exhibitions
2021
Presence
Bar Studios, Milan, Italy
2019
No Art at All
Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
Curated by Giovanni Cavalleri
2016
Selected Works
Baiettini 18 Temporary Art Space, Verbania, Italy
Curated by Jill Mathis and Valerio Tedeschi
2015
Logos
Effearte Gallery, Milan, Italy
Curated by Giulia Sargiacomo
Selected group exhibitions
2022
Exemplar X
About Repetition e. V., Düsseldorf, Germany
Curated by Henning Arend
2020
Palazzo Monti: Transatlantico
Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, United States
Curated by Edoardo Monti
2020
Art Matters (online group show, honourable mention)
Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany
Curated by Stéphane Biesenbach
2016
On and Off Line Art Extravaganza
Antonio Colombo Gallery, Milan, Italy
Residencies
2018
Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
Publications
2021
Low
Published by 279 Editions, January 2021
English, 16 pages
ISBN: 978-88-95165-22-6
Edition of 150, individually numbered
2019
Human
Published by 279 Editions, October 2019
English, 16 pages
ISBN: 978-88-95165-21-9
Edition of 150, individually numbered
2018
Unit
Published by 279 Editions, January 2018
English, 16 pages
ISBN: 978-88-95165-20-2
Edition of 150, individually numbered
2015
Death
Published by 279 Editions, October 2015
English, 16 pages
ISBN: 978-88-95165-19-6
Edition of 150, individually numbered
2014
Base
Published by 279 Editions, January 2014
English, 16 pages
ISBN: 978-88-95165-15-8
Edition of 150, individually numbered
2008
Design Code
Published by 279 Editions, September 2008
English and Italian, 336 pages
ISBN: 978-88-95165-00-4
Edition of 500, individually numbered
A first, private edition of 500 has been previously printed in September 2005
Links
2020
Transatlantico.
Flaunt
Transatlantico.
Architectural Digest
Transatlantico.
Interni
Transatlantico.
Mint
2019
Franco Cervi. No Art at All.
Exibart
2017
Franco Cervi.
Minimalissimo
2016
Franco Cervi. Selected Works.
Exibart
2015
Franco Cervi. Logos.
Wall Street International
Franco Cervi. Logos.
Artribune
Franco Cervi. Logos.
Exibart
