Francesca Mirabile

Francesca Mirabile (born in Bergamo, 1997) currently lives and works between Bergamo and Milan. After earning a degree in Painting from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts (Milan) in 2022 and later attending the Curatorial Laboratory of Contemporary Photography at the Roman publishing house Yogurt Magazine, she developed her practice by merging these different languages. Francesca is fascinated by the Banquet of Don Giovanni from Mozart’s opera and finds the visual and culinary imagery of the past stimulating for its sculptural qualities. She creates heterogeneous works (collages, curtains, sculptures…) by reworking archival images that she believes deserve a second chance. Her work is guided by a strong baroque sensibility. Stratification becomes both an added perspective and a continuous mode of analysis. Leporello, her beloved character, infiltrates her works with his iconic accordion folds in ever new ways.

Francesca Mirabile, LEPORELLO MIO Analisi di un coprotagonista (detail), 2024, paper curtain, 450x270cm, courtesy of the artist, photo by Andrea Benedetta Bonaschi
Francesca Mirabile, Gargantua, 2024, collage on paper, aluminum frame, 80x66cm, courtesy of the artist, photo by Andrea Benedetta Bonaschi
Francesca Mirabile, I sipari (diptych), 2024, collage on paper with accordion curtain on paper, aluminum structure, 50x70cm, courtesy of the artist, photo by Andrea Benedetta Bonaschi