Francesca Grosso is an Italian multidisciplinary artist, flutist, painter, and writer, founder of the contemporary art projects Duemila Voci (2018) and creator of the Artistic-Social Calligram, a technique that produces calligrams from collections of texts, interviews, and collective testimonies, reinterpreting the traditional concept of the calligram in a social and collective context. Her artistic research is distinguished by a synesthetic approach in which music, written word, color, and graphic sign merge into a single expressive and performative language.
Graduated with top marks in Flute from the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory in Rome (2010), she continued her advanced musical studies with Maestro Michele Marasco at the Italian Flute Academy and participated in masterclasses with internationally renowned flutists, including Andrea Oliva, Rien De Reede, Paolo Taballione, and James Galway. She has performed in orchestral and chamber music formations, as well as ensembles dedicated to original music, both as a soloist and in groups, including lower-pitched instruments such as bass flute and contrabass flute, performing in prestigious venues across Italy and Europe. In 2013, she graduated in Arts and Performing Sciences from the University “La Sapienza” in Rome with a thesis in Ethnomusicology on contemporary listening issues in the soundscape of Rome, creating informal scores and treating the city’s sounds as a symphonic orchestra.
Although she has used painting as a tool to understand the world since childhood, she began publicly exhibiting her works only in 2017, opening channels for dissemination on social media. In the same year, she won the Fabrizio De André Prize for painting with the work La Cattiva Strada. In 2018, the first Duemila Voci projects were born, based on the concept of participatory art, where the written word is transformed into visual matter, becoming a symbol of poetic attention and engagement with people’s testimonies.
From this experience emerged the Artistic-Social Calligram, a hybrid language between visual art and writing, developed through performances, installations, and works created with pen and ink, giving tangible form to the dialogue between art and society. Among her most significant projects are: La Voce dei 2000, Voci dalla Quarantena, the performances of L’Urlo di Penelope in the garden of the MAXXI Museum in Rome, the performance on the concept of otherness and nemesis in German Who's your enemy (Düsseldorf, 2023) in collaboration with artist Vera Vorneweg, and the collective work Migliaia di persone come una for the University of Bologna (2023), on permanent exhibition at the university. She has created word portraits dedicated to Peppino and Felicia Impastato, exhibited at the memory museum in Cinisi, and the portrait made in collaboration with the association InOltre for Patrick Zaki’s liberation campaign.
Through the Duemila Voci works, she has explored studies on hyper-information and the ambiguities and paradoxes of language. Her watercolor, oil, and mixed-media paintings stem from a visceral connection with music, transforming sound into painting and vice versa, focusing mainly on the fragility of the human figure.
In 2024, she debuted as an author with the illustrated story Vietato ai poeti guardare la luna (Splēn Edizioni), in which the artistic calligram meets narrative.
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