Francesco Ruspoli
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→ 2017 Group Show. PAKS Gallery. Biennale. Basel. Switzerland
→ 2017 Group Show. PAKS Gallery- Carrousel du Louvres. Paris. France
→ 2017 Group Show. Mecenavie- Art Shopping Spring. Paris. France
→ 2017 Group Show. Art Expo- Mecenavie. New York. USA
→ 2017 Group Show. Galerie Thuillier. Paris. France
→ 2017 Group Show. Mecenavie. Art Shopping Autumn. Paris. France
→ 2017 Group Show Montreux Art Fair. Switzerland
→ 2017 Group Show. Galerie Thuillier. Paris. France
→ 2017 One man Show. Galerie Ludwig Trossaert- Antwerp. Belgium
→ 2017 Group Show. PAKS Gallery. Mauerkirchen. Austria
→ 2017 Group Show . Basel Art Fair-Artbox Project gallery. Basel. Switzerland
→ 2017 Group Show . Spectrum Miami- World Wide Art Artavita- USA
→ 2017 Group Show – Spectrum Miami -Mecenavie gallery- USA
→ 2018 Group Show- Museum of Art & Design, -New York- USA
→ 2018 Group show- Armory Art Fair- Artbox Project Gallery- New York- USA
→ 2018 Group Show- PAKS Gallery Vienna- Vienna, -Austria
→ 2018 Group Show- PAKS Gallery Hubertendorf- Mauerkirchen, -Austria
→ 2018 Group Show- PAKS Gallery Munich- Munich -Germany
→ 2018 Group Show- PAKS Gallery, Vienna- Vienna- Austria
→ 2018 Group Show- Rio Gallery- New York - USA
→ 2018 Group Show-Art Expo New York- Mecenavie gallery- USA
→ 2018 Group Show-Art Expo Las Vegas- Mecenavie gallery-USA
→ 2018 Group Sow- Art Expo New York- Mint Art Haus- USA
→ 2018 Group Show- Spectrum Miami- Mint Art Haus- USA
→ 2018 One man Show- Galerie Ludwig Trossaert- Antwerp- Belgium
→ 2018 Group Show- Aeroe Art Hall Museum of Modern Art- Denmark
→ 2018 Group Show- Manchester Art Fair- Gallery JKL- England
→ 2019 One man Show- Galerie Ludwig Trossaert- Antwerp- Belgium
→ 2019 Group Show- Manchester Art Fair- Gallery JKL- England
→ 2019 Group Show- Contemporary Art Station- Tokyo Art Fair- Tokyo- Japan
→ 2019 Group Show- Jarsboart Gallery- Aalborg- Denmark
→ 2019 Group Show- International Art Fair Kunst Schimmer 7- Ulm- Germany
→ 2019 Group Show- Swiss Art Expo- Artbox Project gallery- Zurich- Switzerland
→ 2019 Group Show- Yukyung Art Museum- Haegeumgand Museum- South Korea
→ 2019 Group Show- Jarsboart Gallery- Aarhus - Denmark
→ 2019 Group Show- Jarsboart Gallery- Kobenhavn- Denmark
→ 2019 Group Show- Art Expo New York- Mecenavie Gallery - USA
→ 2019 Group Show- Art Shopping Carousel du Louvres- Mecenavie Gallery - France
→ 2020 Group Show- “Across the distance”- Langley Arts Council - Canada
→ 2020 Group Show- “Pride by your side” – FMB Art Gallery – Italy
→ 2020 Group Show- “Humanity in Quarantine”- Arts in Color Gallery – USA
→ 2020 Group Show- “New Horizons” – Contemporary Art Curator – Spain
→ 2020 Group Show- “ Seeking the Source” – Moon Space Art Gallery – USA
→ 2020 Group Show- “New Area” – Contemporary Art Station- Japan
→ 2020 Group Show- “The Metamorphosis” - The Holy Art Gallery – UK
→ 2020 Group Show – “New Era” – Art Number 23 Gallery – UK
→ 2021 Group Show - “Affinity” – Pepney Gallery – Ireland
→ 2021 Group Show - ”Life” – Exhibizione Gallery – Canada
→ 2021 Group Show- Virtual Art Fair – Contemporary Art Station- Japan
→ 2021 Group Show - “Human Mind”- Tebbs Gallery- UK
→ 2021 Group Show - “The Artist Story” – Artisteculture .com- India
→ 2021 Group Show – “ Colour” _ Tebbs Gallery – UK
→ 2021 Group Show – Summer Art Fair – Contemporary Art Station- Japan
→ 2021 Group Show- Peace DAY – Diversia – “Peace” – USA
→ 2021 Group Show _ “Connections’ – The Virtual Art Gallery - Germany
→ 2022 Group Show – Winter Exhibition- Maggio Art Consultancy – UK
→ 2022 Group Show – Unity in variety – Gabriel Fine Arts - UK
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→ Power of Creativity Art Prize 2021-UK
→ Power of Creativity Art Prize 2021-UK
→ Issued by Contemporary Art Curators magazine · Aug 2021Issued by Contemporary Art Curators magazine · Aug 2021
→ ATIM Collectors Choice Award 2021-USA
→ ATIM Collectors Choice Award 2021-USA
→ Issued by Arttour International magazine · Jul 2021Issued by Arttour International magazine · Jul 2021
→ ATIM MASTERS AWARD- USA
→ ATIM MASTERS AWARD- USA
→ Issued by ATIM Masters of Contemporary Art · Jan 2018Issued by ATIM Masters of Contemporary Art · Jan 2018
→ HONORABLE MENTION AWARD- USA
→ HONORABLE MENTION AWARD- USA
→ Issued by Circle Foundation for the Arts · Jan 2018Issued by Circle Foundation for the Arts · Jan 2018
→ THE HONORARY AWARD OF DISTINCTION- UK
→ THE HONORARY AWARD OF DISTINCTION- UK
→ Issued by Art Addiction Media Museum · Jan 2018Issued by Art Addiction Media Museum · Jan 2018
→ HONORABLE AWARD- UK
→ HONORABLE AWARD- UK
→ Issued by Art Addiction Media Museum · Jan 2016Issued by Art Addiction Media Museum · Jan 2016
→ HONORABLE AWARD- USA
→ HONORABLE AWARD- USA
→ Issued by Artavita Gallery · Jan 2016
→ Issued by Artavita Gallery · Jan 2016
→ GOLD MEDAL- China
→ GOLD MEDAL- China
→ Issued by Beijing Olympic Fine Art · Jan 2008
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Born in 1958 in Paris from a British mother with a French background and a Belgian father with an Italian background, Ruspoli has presented his work in international art fairs and international galleries increasing worldwide exposure.
He has been recipient of a number of important international awards and medals such as to mention a few: Eugene Fromentin Award and Gold Medal in France, Masters Award, Collectors Choice Award, Honorable Mention Award and Honorable Award in USA, Gold Medal in China, Honorary Award of Distinction, Power of Creativity Art Prize, Honorary Master Award and Honorable Award in UK, Silver Medal in Italy.
Inspired by his surrounding Ruspoli moved towards a new way of working stimulated by the influences of artists such as Chaim Soutine, Georges Rouault, Henri Matisse, Edward Munch and Egon Schiele.
Ruspoli art work places the human figures in an abstract environment supported by a vivid use of colours where subtle gradation and dramatic contrast express nuance of emotion and sensuous physicality. The work also expresses the direct sensation of lived experience through organic shapes and forms woven from flowing lines and the gaze of the viewer. You are invited to participate in a creative encounter with these elements constructing your own visual languages and meanings.
Ruspoli has his paintings in Museum’s permanent collections in Italy, Denmark, South Korea and French Polynesia and in private collections in Europe, USA, China.
“Art is about sharing visual ideas. My canvas may not have a front or a back cover but I try with each study, each painting to represent a work to be read rather than stared at. If through my work as an artist I am able to stimulate thoughts and feelings then I have achieved my goal.”
“Art expresses a fundamental part of what it means to be human. It is through art that the conflicts of life can be explored, better understood, brought to the surface and put into new relationships with each other. I believe we are living in an unprecedented time of the breakdown in human relationships and interactions. This is happening from the individual and personal level to the opposite geopolitical end of the spectrum. We tend to think of interactivity in terms of technology these days rather than as human feeling and connection.
My art is meant to directly challenge this state of affairs and re-invigorate and re-inspire the emotional and spiritual dimensions of human life, which is inevitably in direct conflict with much of what we see around us in our world now. These are central question not just of what art is, but of what art does, and can or even should do. The biggest frustration has been struggling against a system that attempts to codify what sells, thereby killing creativity and individual expression. It has taken me many years to find my creative voice, and a large part of this has been a struggle against such commercial forces. They are very powerful and insidious, and institutionally dismiss or ignore what they cannot appreciate.”
Francesco Ruspoli’s work is an exploration of relational space and its changing possibilities within contemporary society. His work explores the dynamic frontier between abstraction and figuration. This fertile area keeps alive the infinite possibilities of being human in an age intent upon limiting them. There is a defiant romanticism that insists that emotions are precious, meaning is creative and that there is a world beyond commodities.
Using a strikingly vibrant palette, each painting enacts a symphonic dance of colour where subtle gradation and dramatic contrast express nuances of emotion and sensuous physicality. Timely reminder of our embodied life with its hopes and dreams, pain and the poignancy of yearning. The eternal human dance of reaching out and holding back is thus movingly enacted.
The work expresses the direct sensation of lived experience through organic shapes and forms woven from flowing lines and the gaze of the viewer. You are invited to participate in a creative encounter with these elements, constructing your own visual languages, responses and meanings. From this aesthetic encounter, urgent questions will arise about the quality of engagement between humans and their many environments. It is hoped there also follows an increased sense of wonder at your own capacity for re-interpretation and invention that will uplift both you and the world in which you live: this is the very essence of hope.
Creativity for Ruspoli is a unique form of discovery. Like an archaeologist of his own imagination, he gently reveals hidden layers whilst discovering the essence of the image, which may origin in ancient or classical art, dance or theatre. This process involves lengthy development of ideas worked through on canvas, much like Beethoven’s constant working out, reworking and gradual refinement of his musical themes in sketches. This requires an austere Zen-like mental discipline, where he can get himself out of the way so his art can create itself.
The relational concern of his work is intended to embrace all viewers, so their interpretations are equally valid as his. The act of viewing is to enter a relationship, a mutual encounter of the painting and the viewer. This is why the figures in his work are placed so viscerally in relation to each other, and why this stimulates a reflection on relatedness which encompasses the viewer.
A vital part of interpretation is our emotional response, which incidentally is not solely the preserve of a ‘refined’ academic elite. The experience of being with others is the essence of his work, so he hopes his work is able to share that precise experience with the viewer. You could say his message, theme and vision is to co-create an experience of emotional connection, whatever it happens to be on that precise moment of that particular day, with you, here, in this space together.
