MILK & BLOOD - performance at MAC, Birmingham

Franko B will perform MILK & BLOOD at MAC Birmingham on Thursday 13th October 2016

Tickets: https://macbirmingham.co.uk/event/franko-b-milk-blood



Pioneering performance artist Franko B returns to Birmingham with an uncompromising performance that responds to personal traumas, societal ills, corrupt politics and barbaric conflict. Milk will bleed, but blood is still the story.

franko-b.com/milk_and_blood.html



FRANKO B LECTURE



Franko B will be giving a 'master class' [lecture] about his work on 26th August 2016, as part of the Contemporary Festival di Musica e Arte d'Avanguardia in Cagliari, Sardinia

6.30 pm, Ex Montegranatico | Via Vittorio Emanuele 80 | Donori (CA)

http://www.comunicadesidera.com/news/1/223/Contemporary_Festival-di-musica-e-arte-d’avanguardia---IV-Edizione



NEW T-SHIRTS

A series of new designs have been added to Franko B's T-shirt store.

buy them here: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/franko-b/





EVENTS AT PALAZZO LUCARINI - reminder

A reminder of Franko B's events at Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary - Centre for Contemporary Art, Trevi, Italy this Autumn:

      



DEATH & ROMANCE IN THE XXI CENTURY
24th September - 27th November 2016 - Extended to 8th January 2017
A major solo exhibition of new work by Franko B, curated by Maurizio Coccia.


FORMS & OBJECTS
24th September - 27th November 2016 - Extended to 8th January 2017
A group exhibition curated by Franko B.
Exhibiting artists: Andrea Abbatangelo, James Bullimore, Marco Cingolani, Sebastiano Dammone Sessa, Giuseppe Lana, Andrea Marcaccio, Marco Paganini, Thomas Qualmann, Annalisa Riva


DEATH & ROMANCE: A WORKSHOP WITH FRANKO B
A journey through the Personal, Political and Poetic
29th August - 3rd September 2016
An intensive workshop for sixteen young artists working closely with Franko B.
Applications now closed.

http://www.palazzolucarini.it




PERMANENT INSTALLATION AT THE FOUNDRY

An installation made from the props from Franko B's performance, Because of Love (2012-2014) and one of his black paintings are now on permanent display at The Foundry, Rue de la Fonderie, Maubourguet, Midi-Pyrenees, France.

http://www.thefoundry.fr



Photographs by Petr Davydtchenko





DIPINGERE IL PRESENTE

DIPINGERE IL PRESENTE - Group exhibition of 16 Italian and 16 Chinese artists, curated by Alessandro Demma

6th - 26th August 2016

Peninsula Art Museum, Weihai, China

http://www.igav-art.org/mostre/dettaglio/sez/3/id/67



Taking its cue from the long, shared visual history of Italy and China, the exhibition aims to analyse the problems and demands of contemporary life and the tools that may be used to de-codify it from the inside of the pictorial space, interpreted as a place both physical and mental – one of the most important and complex themes of today’s art. 

Italian Artists in the exhibition: Andrea Aquilanti; Franko B; Fabrizio cotognini; Alberto Di Fabio; Massimiliano Galliani; Daniele Galliano; Paul Gonzato; Corinna Gosmaro; Silvia Hell; Paolo Leonardo; Mariangela Levita; Pierpaolo List; Marco Blacks; Pierluigi Pusole; Alessandro Sarra; Giancarlo Scagnolari.

 Chinese Artists: Cang Xin; Chen Haoyang; Chen Wenling; Han Yansong; He Wenjue; Huang Ying; Of them; Lei Li; Liu Jianfeng; Meng Luding; Tao Na & Cong Xiao; Wang Yun; Zhang Xinyu; Zhang Yanzi; Zhang Zhaohui; Zhou Yangming.



FRANKO B - interview

Franko B interviewed by Sean Ketteringham for Corridor 8 after his performance, MILK & BLOOD at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, July 2016.

http://www.corridor8.co.uk/online/interview-franko-b/

[…] the language is part of my body. My performance, or my image-making, is connected with language or texts; it’s a kind of a mix of things that are going on, sometimes more consciously, sometimes less consciously, but I think they are part of the work. I think they’re part of who you are. [… Continue reading >]

franko-b.com/milk_and_blood.html



FRANKO B - interview

Franko B: ‘An artist’s job is not to suffer, but to ask questions on what it’s like to be alive’ 

Interview by Jessica Greenall for artinliverpool.com, ahead of Franko B's performance, MILK & BLOOD at The Bluecoat (July 2016).

http://www.artinliverpool.com/featured-artist-franko-b/



www.franko-b.com/milk_and_blood.html