Franco Demonte

Weisman Art museum Minneapolis Minnesota 2007
Casa Italia (Italian cultural center)3800 division st. stone park,illinois 2008
Casa Italia (Italian cultural center)3800 division st. stone park,illinois 2009
Rotunda Gallery Casa Italia Art show Village of Addison,Illinois 1 Friendship Plz Addison, IL 2009
Casa Italia (Italian cultural center)3800 division st. stone park,illinois 2010
Rotunda Gallery Casa Italia Art show Village of Addison,Illinois 1 Friendship Plz Addison, IL 2010
Roscoe Village Starbucks Gallery 2023 w.roscoe,chicago,illinois hosted by Have Art co.
Red Dot Miami.Artisan Direct 11-30-10/12-5-10..Art Basel Art week 2010
Dene' Gallery Geneva illinois Franco Demonte 12-10-10/1-10-10
A Vision Chicago solo painting exhibit 3-2-11
Japan-Red Cross Benefit-Prop Theatre Chicago 4-10-11
Casa Italia Art show (Italian Cultural Center group show stone park illinois 8-31-11
Rotunda Gallery Addison Village Hall - Casa Italia group show 9-2-11
The Next Wave Art Salon Group Show Elgin Illinois 9-9-11,9-10-11

Franco Demonte’s paintings are a complex dialogue of abstract landscapes weaving color, texture, and cultural artifacts. Born in Winfield, Illinois, Franco was raised in an Italian household where trips to Italy introduced him to painting, architecture, and archaeology. Franco studied life-drawing, painting, anatomy, illustration, and painting at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. Inspired by Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Cezanne, Matisse, Van Gogh, Picasso, Emilio Scanavino, and Emilio Vedova. Demonte began drawing at a young age, studying photos and rendering his work from memory. Franco’s first drawing of Roger Rabbit at the age of 7 quickly showed his talent, followed by a self-portrait and a pencil drawing of a young Elvis Presley. Franco poured his interest in Disney books and copied many of the illustrations that inspired his future creations. The artist admired the grace of the Old Masters, the timeless portraits and still life of Botticelli, Titian, and Giotto di Bondone to name a few. In 1999, Franco was invited to paint the Chicago Cows on Display public art exhibition that was presented in Zurich, Switzerland, during the summer of 1998. Demonte’s photography during travels to Italy and Spain has expanded his repertoire into photo-collage, painted glass, and a rich blend of mixed-media landscapes that draws from the chiaroscuro of Caravaggio and the cubism of Picasso. The 2000 years revealed Franco’s movement toward abstraction, painting and mixed media using color and form as influenced by Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, Jean Arp.

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