Franz Borghese

Franz Borghese: was born in Rome on January 21st 1941.

He studied at the Fine Arts Academy and Art School in Rome, with Domenico Purificato, Giuseppe Capogrossi, U. Maganzini and Giulio Turcato.
In 1964 he founded an art and culture magazine "Il ferro di cavallo" (The horseshoe).
From the middle 'sixties he became a lucid and ironic narrator of the habits and alienations of the middle class, by means of grotesque stereotypes, apparently adhering to the ideological German Expressionism of George Grosz and Otto Dix, but in fact immersed in a lively and ambiguous fantasy-fabled vein.
His works usually represent ironic frames and caricatures of middle class society and urban crowds.
The artist uses many techniques: oil and tempera; Chinese ink and water colours, graphic and engraving techniques and sculptures.
Personal exhibition 1969-1971 Calibro Gallery in Rome, 1970 "Il Rombo" Gallery in Catanzaro, 1980 Citybank in Turin, 1981 "Il Cannocchiale" Gallery in Mialn, 1983 Forni Gallery in Bologna and Soufer Gallery in New York, 1989 Selfart in Rome and Biaf in Barcelona, 1991 Bastien-Art Gallery in Bruxelles and Gioacchini Gallery in Ancona, 2005 personal exhibition in Vinus (Lituania) and, in the same year, the anthological exhibition on "Palazzo Venezia" in Rome.
Borghese died in Rome on December 16st 2005.