Francesco Vella, born in Caneggio (Switzerland) in 1954, having completed his compulsory education, he attended the High School of Commerce of Bellinzona then enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, where he graduated in 1980 with Prof. Zeno Birolli.
In 1986 he presents his first solo exhibition.
The artistic research of Vella begins in the early eighties with a series of post-informal experiences where he pasted objects and images taken from many different cultural contexts within the magmatic color, thus highlighting the overlap of disordered and heterogeneous forces and impulses, of knowledge, facts, information, memories and images that come together and live together – more or less harmoniously – in each of us, making it a conglomeration of items, a physical cultural and psychological realities in constant motion, impossible to define.
Since its inception, the painting of Vella is intended as a reflection on the complex and changing concept of identity in relation to what surrounds us and fills us.
He lives and works in Chiasso, Switzerland.
Max Museo, Chiasso
Repetto Gallery London
Galerie Vogtei Herrliberg/ Zurigo
Glattzentrum RNR / Zurigo Wallisellen
Wopart, work on paper fair, Lugano, stand De Primi Fine Art
Must Gallery, Lugano
Wopart, work on paper fair, Lugano, stand De Primi Fine Art.
“Arte e poesia”, Civica Galleria d’Arte Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona
BSI, Locarno
"Silvano Repetto e Francesco Vella. L’uovo cosmico – Scritture elettriche e opere scelte", De Primi Fine Art, Lugano
Michele Balmelli Gallery, Lugano
"Sguardi sulla collezione. Ricerche artistiche in Ticino dal 1970 ad oggi", Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano
“Sage comme un’image, Arte Svizzera – Oltre l’Enigma”, Galleria Palladio, Lugano
Finter Bank, Lugano
"L’immagine del vuoto. Una linea di ricerca dell’arte in Italia 1958 - 2006", Museo Cantonale d’Arte di Lugano
Lattuada Studio, Milano. Catalogo (Guglielmo Gigliotti)
Pinacoteca Canto naie Giovanni Zust, Rancate. Catalogo (Christian Marazzi)
Städtische Galerie Dortmund
Stile Libero, Chiasso
Museo Cantonale di Lugano
Civica Galleria d'Arte di Villa Ciani di Lugano
Galileria Palladio, Lugano. Catalogo (Bettina Della Casa).
Ernst & Young, Lugano
Fiera Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea Bologna. Catalogo. Stand Galleria Palladio.
Galleria Palladio, Lugano. Catalogo (Magda Sohns-Petraglio).
Galleria Palladio, Lugano. Catalogo (Giorgio Zanchetti).
Galleria Spazio XXI, Bellinzona. Catalogo (Luigi Cavadini).
Cité Internationale des Arts, Parigi.
Galleria Palladio, Lugano. Catalogo (Gastone Mandozzi).
Salone San Francesco, Musei Civici Como. Catalogo.
Galleria Margine, Zurigo. Catalogo (Testo di Walter Schbnenberger).
Sala Corso, Chiasso.
