The Crystals and sculptures

of Franca Franchi

WORKS

Crystal table with underlying work (190x100 cm)

Water Crystal, 2009 - Fragments of mirror and glass on wood, 130x185 cm

Crystal “Preghiera alle Bahamas”, 2009 Fragments of mirror and glass on wood, 123x187 cm

Water crystal, 2009

Fragments of mirror, glass and crystal on wood, 83x38 cm

Water crystal, 2009 Installation

Fragments of mirror, glass and stones on crystal, 71x40 cm

Crystal “Il confine”, 2009 Installation

Fragments of mirror, crystal and glass on crystal - 100x40 cm

Crystal “Il mio mondo”, 2011Sculpture

Crystal, mirror and paint, 30x32x35 cm

Crystal “Vele”, 2011Sculpture

Crystal, mirror and paint, 28x33x45 cm

Sculptures to wear

ParureSteel necklace with pendant made of mirror, crystal and Murano glass on the silver base (Diameter 13 cm - Height 8 cm)

Mirror, crystal and Murano glass brooch on the steel base (Length 7 cm )

Crystal, mirror and Murano glass ring on the silver base (Length 3,5 cm )

Parure

Steel necklace with pendant made of mirror on the brass base (Diameter 13 cm - Height 6 cm)

Mirror brooch on the brass base (Lenght 6 cm)

Steel necklace with pendant made of mirror, crystal and Murano glass on the steel base (Diameter 13 cm - Height 10 cm)

Steel necklace with pendant made of mirror and crystal on the silver base (Diameter 13 cm - Height 7 cm)

Steel necklace with pendant made of mirror, crystal and venetian gold on the

steel base (Diameter 13 cm - Height 9 cm)

Living sculptures

Crystal table with underlying work (160x80 cm)

Floor lamp off (185x16 cm)

Floor lamp on (185x16 cm)

Table lamp off (27x20 cm)

Table lamp on (27x20cm)

Crystal tablemat (40x30 cm)

Crystal tablemats (40x30 cm)

ABOUT THE ARTISTFranca Franchi was born in 1961 in Piacenza (Italy), where she works. She lives in the countryside outside the city. She attended the traditional Classical Language Grammar School there, and later took a degree in Law, and has now been working as a lawyer for more than twenty years.

Her artistic talents, which during her adolescence were expressed in painting, for which she was awarded prizes (some of which by the Ricci Oddi Gallery Of Modern Art, Piacenza), were until recently channelled mainly into interior design, with the creation of living spaces in a variety of difference residences.

In 2008, while continuing in her career as a lawyer, she took up artistic work again, finding inspiration in the fascinating theory of a Japanese scientist which consider the influence of human words on water through vibration, and the energy originating from the words themselves, which in certain conditions bring about the creation of highly harmonic water crystals. This was the inspiration behind the realization of the artist’s “crystals”, though she distances herself figuratively in her own artistic compositions from the water crystals so superbly photographed in the work of the scientist.

The artist uses exclusively waste mirror and glass for her work. At the heat of her artistic development lies the search for harmony, and the striving towards harmony is therefore manifested in the resulting artistic composition.

Franca Franchi has participated in an increasing number of exhibitions over the last years both in Italy and in foreign countries (Dubai - United Arab Emirates, New York - USA, France).