FRANCESCO CANDIDO
Born in Castelsilano (KR) Italy on April
15, 1953
ARTIST: sculptor/painter
Address: 13 Avenue Emile Zola, 78300
POISSY. France
Telephone: +33 1 30 65 78 44
e-mail : candido53@free.fr
Education
1972
Maestro d'Arte (ceramics) Istituto Statale d'Arte, Locri (RC)
1976
Diploma d’Accademia delle Belle Arti (decoration), Roma
Exhibitions
ALL
EXHIBITIONS ARE ONE-MAN SHOWS UNLESS MARKED “(group)”
Italy
1982
Crotone, Galleria Il Tripode, engravings
1983
Lorica, Grand Hôtel, engravings
Modena, Centro Muratori, engravings (group)
Great Britain
Cambridge, Trumpington Gallery, engravings
Cambridge,
Gallery-on-the-Cam, engravings (group)
Cambridge, Hobson Gallery, engravings (group)
Italy
Brescia, Centro d'Arte Marcianò, engravings
Germany
1984
Murnau, Ceramics Fair, ceramic plates
Italy
1988
Crotone, Galleria Dafne, “Furrows in the Earth” ceramic plates and
terracotta sculptures
1990
Trepidò,
Palumbo Sila, ceramic plates (group)
1993
Catanzaro, Hôtel Caposuvero, Gizzeria, exhibitor at congress
led by Achille Bonito Oliva on the theme “Art
and Education Today” (group)
Cesenatico, Galleria Il Quadrato: totem
in
terracotta (group)
1994
Bagno di Romagna, Loggetta Lippi
paintings, watercolours
and bronze, ceramic and
terracotta sculptures
Rapallo, Antico Castello, paintings, watercolours
and bronze, ceramic and
terracotta sculptures
France
1995
Paris, Piment Bleu, rue Saint-Paul, (group)
Italy
Florence, Fortezza da Basso, Sculpture Fair
bronzes and ceramics
France
1996
Paris, Equateur Art, avenue Percier,
"L'Erotismo"watercolours (group)
Poissy, La Grange, paintings, watercolours and
bronzes
Meulan,
Art Fair
Rueil-Malmaison, 'Aquarella'
Italy
1997
Regione Calabria, Comune di Castelsilano,
" I Percorsi dell'anima", paintings,
watercolours
and sculptures
France
Paris, Centre for Italian Language and Culture, rue
des Prêtres Saint-Séverin, paintings, watercolours
and sculptures
1998
Paris, Galerie "Les Alliés", 282 rue Saint Jacques,
paintings
Ville de Neuilly-sur-Seine, Salons Arturo Lopez,
sculptures, paintings, engravings and
watercolours
Paris, Centre d'Affaires Etoile-Saint-Honoré, rue
Balzac – recent works
Italy
1999
Provincia di Crotone, Galleria Delucarte, Piazza
dell'Immacolata, Crotone,
recent works
Napoli, Institut Français de Naples, via Crispi 86,
sculptures
France
Paris, Société Générale, Agence Centrale, 29
Boulevard Haussmann –paintings and sculpture
Italy Selected by the Town
Council of Castelsilano -
ten murals for the Open Air Museum of Folk
Culture
Morcone Fair, Provincia di Benevento, guest of
honour
France
2000 Restaurant
La Scala, Saint-Germain-en-Laye,
paintings
Italy
Comune di Cutro,- engravings, sculpture, paintings
Castle, Comune di Santa Severina,retrospective
sculpture
Festival, Domanico (CS) engravings
France
Restaurant Les Jardins D’Arcy,
Montigny-le-Bretonneux
Aquarella
2000, Rueil-Malmaison
Francia
2002
Paris, Galeries Lafayette Gourmet, sculptures
on show and demonstration of sculpture in
Parmigiano Reggiano, sponsorizzato
da
Treo e Consorzio Parmigiano Reggiano
Paris, Centre for Italian Language and Culture, “La
Vita è un dono” – new sculptures and watercolours
2003
Montigny les Bretonneux, Restaurant
Les Jardins
d’Arcy
“WINNER” Seine barge moored at Poissy
watercolours and paintings (group)
Italy
2003
Venosa, “al Frantoio” – watercolours
France
2004
“WINNER” Seine barge moored at Poissy
« Poissy Insolite » sculptures, paintings and
digital graphics
Italy
2004
Milano, “Dulcis in Fundo”, via Zuretti 55,
paintings, sculpture and watercolours
Castelsilano, Piazza Rotondo, “Sguardo
sullo
Ionio” sculptures, paintings
and
watercolours
Bari, Artoteca della Vallisa “Un mondo a colori”
sculptures and watercolours
France
2005
Rueil-Malmaison, Aquarella
Paris - Marché de la Création, bld
Richard Lenoir, Bastille (Saturdays)
Paris Galerie des Syrtes, 15
rue St Paul,
watercolours
2006
Paris – Centre Culturel du Ministère des Finances,
rue de Bercy, sculptures
IRELAND Dublin – Italian Cultural Institute :
“Waiting…” recent drawings and paintings
Sales at Auction (expert
Dominique Stal)
Paris
1995 Me Pierre-Marie Rogeon,
Hôtel Drouot
1996
Me Pierre-Marie Rogeon, Hôtel Drouot
Le Mans
1996 Me Serge Hervouin
Paris
1997 Me Pierre-Marie Rogeon, Espace de Neslé
Strasbourg
1998 Me François-Xavier Seyler
Publications
"Planting
onions", engraving - Agricoltura
Calabria, 02/83
Poster
: I SEGNI DELL'UOMO - Museo Demografico
della Sila
"Choosing the seed corn", engraving - Italia
Artistica, 08/83
"The Chair Mender", "Feeling the Hens",
engravings - Europa Artistica, 08/83
"The Donkey is Dead" - engraving - Il
Crotonese, 17/09/87
"Hoeing the Vineyard" - engraving - Il
Crotonese, 24/09/87
"The
Souls of Time", totems in terracotta - Quadri
e Sculture, 1993/4
"Turner’s
River", oil on Formica - Quadri e
Sculture, 1994
"Solidarity",
bronze - Quadri e Sculture, 1995
"The Souls of Time V", totem in terracotta, Club
Art Word, 1995
"Paradise",
oil on Formica, Quadri e Sculture, 1996
"The Boat", "Everything will have to
change so that things can stay as they are", Quadri
e Sculture, 1999
Video Reports
Interview with Roberta Ranieri (1994)
VideoCalabria, RTI Crotone, Telespazio
Calabria (1997)
RAI
3 Cosenza, RTI Crotone, VideoCalabria, Telespazio Calabria (1999)
Yvelines
Première (2006)
Press Articles
1982
Il Diario del Crotonese
Il Crotonese
(Saverio Basile)
1983
Italia Artistica (Elio Marcianò)
1993
Krotone (Teodoro Torchia)
1994
Il Corriere di Cesena (Roberta
Ranieri)
1994
Il Secolo XIX
1996
Le Courrier des Yvelines (Marc
Delbos)
1997
Il Crotonese (Teodoro Torchia)
1997
Le Figaro (Paris - Jean-Louis
Pinte)
1998
La Gazzetta del Sud (Filomena
Spina)
1998
Poissy Magazine
Neuilly Journal Indépendant
1999
Crotone: Il Crotonese, La Provincia
KR
Napoli: Il Corriere del Mezzogiorno
Castelsilano: La Gazzetta del Sud (x2) ,Il Domani
(Gazzetta dello Sport), Il Quotidiano della Calabria,
Il Crotonese (x2)
Benevento: Il Sannio (x2), La
Cittadella
Il Mattino
2000
Il
Crotonese (x2), Il Quotidiano della Calabria(x3)
2002-4
Il Crotonese – articles
by Francesco Grande
2003,2004
Le Courrier des Yvelines
Prize
1999
Un
Crotonese in Europa –
award “reserved for the best talents of the province who,
having emigrated from Italy to Europe have made a name for themselves for
special creativity and excellence and so promoted
the culture of the province”
PRIZE for sculpture and painting
Collections
Provincia di Crotone, Compagnie Européenne de Céramique,
Franco and Gianna Manelli, Thierry and Audrey Nautin, Montreal and other
collectors in the USA, France, Italy and Great Britain