I Apologise

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exhibition at Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi

(July-September 2025)

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about:

exhibition curated by Maurizio Coccia and Mara Predicatori

Assistant and installation assistant: Gabriele Provenzano

Helpers: Aurora Chiantore, Anna Ronchiato, Rachele Zennaro Exhibition assistants: students from the Academy of Fine Arts of L'Aquila: Mara Albani, Chiara Aliprandi, Massimo Camplone, and Sara Dias

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exhibition texts:

• Disordinare il Senso [Disordering Meaning]

Mara Predicatori

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• I Apologise, l’Innocenza Offesa [Offended Innocence]

Filippo Mollea Ceirano

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• We Apologise

Maurizio Coccia

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Franko B hangs pain out on display like laundry, exposing it and letting it dry before our eyes. He hangs children's dresses, early twentieth-century dressing gowns, and household tablecloths, embroidering them with news images, symbols, slogans, and harsh, ambiguous words that cut through the air with pain, accusation, and enigma There is no nostalgia, but rather a re-semanticization, visual sabotage, and the rewriting of intimacy as a critical space. [...>]

-Mara Predicatori, Disordinare il Senso (2025)

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There is a common, unifying element in Franko B's research that links his works and makes them distinctive and recognizable even when, as often happens, they are created with very different techniques and means of expression: they are images, sensations, and suggestions drawn from personal memories and collective experiences that become testimonies to the distortions, violence, and contradictions of a society that is unconcerned about offending the very human traits it should defend. It is to these hypocrisies that, with imagination and the sharing of emotions, one can try to react, building a critical conscience on the one hand and nurturing the ability to create better contexts on the other. [...>]

- Filippo Mollea Ceirano, I Apologise, l’Innocenza Offesa (2025)

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Life does not give discounts. It is irremediable. So, if Franko B.'s art directly emanates from this, it's no longer a question of good taste or morality. His works can be atrocious and genuine, even unbearably so. Or grotesque, like certain natural disasters. Or, again, inevitable and sincere, as only life, on certain painful and definitive occasions, can be. [...>]

Maurizio Coccia, We Apologise (2025)

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photos:

photographs by Gabriele Provenzano

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works:

• Another Stain on my Heart

installation (2025)

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• I'm So Fucking Queer

installation / series of sculptures (2024-2025)

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• Here Comes The Rain

series of stitch drawings on vintage nightshirts (2023-2025)

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• Sleeping Beauty Version 2

sculpture (2016)

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• The Last Supper

series of stitch drawings on unprimed linen canvases (2024)

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• Broken

ceramic installation (2019)

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• Cocks

series of ceramic sculptures (2021-2024)

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• Time Travels

series of multi-media sculptures (2018-2020)

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• Stitched Black Paintings

series of acrylic paintings on embroidered canvases (2023-2025)

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• Blood Canvas

series of objects wrapped in blood-stained canvas (1999-2002/2024)

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