Represented artist
Daniele Franzella
Palermo, 1978. Based in Palermo
Statement
Daniele Franzella, artist engaged in a refined theoretical research mainly conveyed through the language of sculpture and installation, investigates the evocative power of images and their nature as a manipulable language, in a recurring exercise of semantic reworking of symbols and codes. Through a wise use of techniques and materials, Franzella enacts a game of paradoxes and reversals, digging into the value of the material, making the material itself a language, cooperating and co-originating with the idea and concept of each work.
His vocation as an archivist, as a historian, as a scholar of images and encyclopedic collector, combines with that of a conceptual artist, in search of forms that tend to embody the idea. Symbols of nature, myth and power populate his artistic production. But nothing is as it appears, everything transmutes, renames itself, changes skin and bones, in a non-univocal relationship between reality and its representations.
His works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
Since 2017 he has been among the artists represented by RizzutoGallery. Since 2021 until 2024 he has held the position of Vice Director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo, where he teaches Sculpture.
Installation views
An Inventory Of, RizzutoGallery, Palermo - Italy - 2019
BETHLEM, Cattedrale di Biella - 2026
Santi, Sirene, Briganti e Baccanali, RizzutoGallery, Palermo - Italy - 2025
Antiquarium, Largo Notarile & Sito Archeologico di Halaesa Arconidea, Tusa (Messina) - Italy - 2026
Mitologema, RizzutoGallery, Palermo - Italy - 2023
Anabasi, Casa del Mutilato, Palermo - Italy - 2018
An Inventory Of, RizzutoGallery, Palermo - Italy - 2019
An Inventory Of, RizzutoGallery, Palermo - Italy - 2019
Mitologema, RizzutoGallery, Palermo - Italy - 2023
Mitologema, RizzutoGallery, Palermo - Italy - 2023
GARDEN, RizzutoGallery, Palermo - Italy - 2024
3rooms, RizzutoGallery, Palermo - Italy - 2024Works
Ceramic, Extruded polystyrene, iron
100 × 79 × 42 cm
Ceramic
32.5 × 35 × 14 cm
Ceramic, Photoceramic, Iron, Magnets, Wood, Aluminum, Rubber.
43.5 × 44 × 50 cm
Ceramic, Photoceramic, Iron, Magnets, Wood, Aluminum, Rubber.
35 × 70 × 51 cm
Digital fresco
300 × 248 × 5 cm
Ceramic
107 × 53 × 18 cm
Ceramic
46 × 17 × 10 cm
Ceramic
95 × 60 × 20 cm
Digital fresco, iron frame
126 × 91 × 6 cm
Digital fresco, iron frame
126 × 91 × 6 cm
Ceramic, brass
43 × 23 × 22 cm
Print, bituminous corrugated sheet
202 × 87 × 9 cm
Ceramics, Neon, Wood, Transformers and Electrical Cables
70 × 80 × 30 cm
Ceramic
90 × 43 × 35 cm
Photoceramic
15 × 15 × 19 cm
Photoceramic
15 × 15 × 19 cm
Photoceramic
35 × 50 cm
Ceramic and expanded polystyrene
130 × 55 × 43 cm
Exhibitions
- PalermoSANTI, SIRENE, BRIGANTI E BACCANALIMattia Barbieri, Francesco De Grandi, Daniele Franzella, Luigi Presicce22 March – 28 June 2025
- PalermoGARDENLoris Cecchini, Richard Deacon, Daniele Franzella30 November 2024 – 1 February 2025
- Palermo3roomsMattia Barbieri, Daniele Franzella, Luigi Presicce27 September – 9 November 2024
- PalermoMITOLOGEMADaniele Franzella15 April – 24 June 2023
- PalermoSexophiliaFrancesco De Grandi, Daniele Franzella14 February – 3 April 2021
- PalermoAn Inventory OfDaniele Franzella31 October 2019 – 1 February 2020
News
- 10 September 2026ExhibitionDaniele Franzella opens Carte scritte e tinte at Unìco, MondelloDaniele Franzella opens the first stage of the group exhibition of Carte scritte e tinte at Unìco Boutique hotel d'Arte, Palermo, on 10 September 2026.Unìco Boutique hotel d'Arte, Palermo
- 25 July 2026ExhibitionDaniele Franzella: solo exhibition at the archaeological site of Halaesa Arconidea, TusaA solo exhibition by Daniele Franzella is on view at the Sito Archeologico di Halaesa Arconidea, Tusa, from 25 July to 20 September 2026.Sito Archeologico di Halaesa Arconidea, Tusa
- 24 July 2026Public commissionA permanent monumental sculpture by Daniele Franzella in TusaA new site-specific monumental sculpture by Daniele Franzella is presented on 24 July 2026 at the ancient gate of Tusa, in Largo Notarile.Largo Notarile, Tusa
- 9 May 2026PublicationDaniele Franzella writes the text for Francesca Polizzi's LunariaFrancesca Polizzi's solo exhibition Lunaria at RizzutoGallery, Palermo (9 May – 18 July 2026), is accompanied by a text by Daniele Franzella.RizzutoGallery, Palermo
- 9 April 2026FairRizzutoGallery at Art Düsseldorf 2026RizzutoGallery at Art Düsseldorf 2026 with Daniele Franzella, Francesco De Grandi, Richard Deacon and Katharina Maderthaner.Art Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
- 19 March 2026ProjectGLASS-ROOM at Museo Riso: Daniele Franzella with the sculpture students of the Academy of Fine Arts of PalermoFrom 19 March 2026 a street window of Museo Riso, Palermo, hosts three installations by students of the Academy of Fine Arts, where Franzella teaches Sculpture.RISO – Museo regionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Palermo, Palermo
- 14 March 2026Curatorial projectYoungVolcano 8 at RizzutoGallery: a selection conceived by Marcello Buffa, Francesco De Grandi and Daniele FranzellaDaniele Franzella is one of the three professors behind the selection of YoungVolcano 8, at RizzutoGallery, Palermo, from 14 March to 18 April 2026.RizzutoGallery, Palermo
- 5 February 2026FairRizzutoGallery at Arte Fiera 2026RizzutoGallery at Arte Fiera 2026 with Daniele Franzella, Mattia Barbieri, Richard Deacon, Francesco De Grandi, Luigi Presicce and Lucio Pozzi.Arte Fiera, Bologna
- 16 January 2026ExhibitionDaniele Franzella in Generazione Sicilia: collezione Elenk'art at MAC, GibellinaDaniele Franzella is among the artists of Generazione Sicilia: collezione Elenk'art at MAC \"Ludovico Corrao\", Gibellina, until 10 May 2026.MAC – Museo d'Arte Contemporanea "Ludovico Corrao, Gibellina
- 16 January 2026ExhibitionDaniele Franzella: Austerlitz in the former Chiesa di Gesù e Maria, GibellinaDaniele Franzella's installation project Austerlitz opens on 16 January 2026 in Gibellina, Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2026.Chiesa di Gesù e Maria, Gibellina
- 23 December 2025ExhibitionAntonio Catelani, Daniele Franzella, Francesca Polizzi, Francesco De Grandi, Mattia Barbieri, Katharina Maderthaner, Lucio Pozzi, Luigi Presicce, Marcello Buffa, Linda Carrara, Anna Capolupo, Andrea Di Marco, Richard Deacon, Tania Giordano, Pietro Leone, Gabriele Massaro and Cosimo Rizzuto in Gallery Party 2025 at RizzutoGallery, PalermoLucio Pozzi shows the painting Liminal pass (2017) in Gallery Party 2025, at RizzutoGallery in Palermo from 23 December 2025 to 31 January 2026.RizzutoGallery, Palermo
- 4 October 2025ExhibitionDaniele Franzella in Poetica degli oggetti at Haus der Kunst, PalermoDaniele Franzella is one of six artists in Poetica degli oggetti (Poetik der Gegenstände), Haus der Kunst, Palermo, 4 October – 6 December 2025.Haus der Kunst, Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo
- 11 September 2025FairRizzutoGallery at viennacontemporary 2025RizzutoGallery at viennacontemporary 2025 with Daniele Franzella and Mattia Barbieri.Messe Wien, Halle D, Vienna
- 10 April 2025FairRizzutoGallery at Art Düsseldorf 2025RizzutoGallery at Art Düsseldorf 2025 with Daniele Franzella, Francesco De Grandi, Katharina Maderthaner and Francesca Polizzi.Art Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
- 22 March 2025ExhibitionDaniele Franzella, Mattia Barbieri, Francesco De Grandi and Luigi Presicce in SANTI, SIRENE, BRIGANTI E BACCANALI at RizzutoGallery, PalermoMattia Barbieri, Francesco De Grandi, Daniele Franzella and Luigi Presicce in a four-artist show at RizzutoGallery, Palermo, 22 March – 28 June 2025.RizzutoGallery, Palermo
- 6 February 2025FairRizzutoGallery at Arte Fiera 2025RizzutoGallery at Arte Fiera 2025 with Daniele Franzella, Mattia Barbieri, Francesco De Grandi and Luigi Presicce.Arte Fiera, Bologna
- 30 November 2024ExhibitionGARDEN: Loris Cecchini, Richard Deacon and Daniele Franzella at RizzutoGallery, PalermoDaniele Franzella shows five works in GARDEN, with Loris Cecchini and Richard Deacon, at RizzutoGallery, Palermo, until 1 February 2025.RizzutoGallery, Palermo
- 23 November 2024ExhibitionDaniele Franzella, Francesco De Grandi, Francesca Polizzi and Luigi Presicce in Pinakothek'A at Palazzo Sant'Elia, PalermoA work by Luigi Presicce is included in Pinakothek'A, the exhibition of the Elenk'Art collection at Palazzo Sant'Elia, Palermo, from 23 November 2024.Fondazione Sant'Elia, Palazzo Sant'Elia, Palermo
- 26 October 2024ExhibitionDaniele Franzella, Francesco De Grandi and Francesca Polizzi in ELF – Le mostre di Düsseldorf at Haus der Kunst, PalermoDaniele Franzella is one of eleven artists in ELF – Le mostre di Düsseldorf, Haus der Kunst, Palermo, 26 October – 7 December 2024.Haus der Kunst, Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo
- 27 September 2024Exhibition3rooms: Mattia Barbieri, Daniele Franzella and Luigi Presicce at RizzutoGallery, PalermoRizzutoGallery presents 3rooms, three mini solo shows by Mattia Barbieri, Daniele Franzella and Luigi Presicce, from 27 September to 9 November 2024.RizzutoGallery, Palermo
- 12 September 2024FairRizzutoGallery at viennacontemporary 2024RizzutoGallery at viennacontemporary 2024 with Daniele Franzella and Francesca Polizzi.viennacontemporary, Vienna
- 4 July 2024ExhibitionFrancesco De Grandi, Daniele Franzella and Turi Rapisarda in Solo che amore ti colpisca at the Real Albergo delle Povere, PalermoDe Grandi, Franzella and Rapisarda take part in Solo che amore ti colpisca, curated by Helga Marsala at the Real Albergo delle Povere, Palermo.Real Albergo delle Povere, Palermo
- 12 April 2024FairRizzutoGallery at Art Düsseldorf 2024RizzutoGallery at Art Düsseldorf 2024 with Daniele Franzella and Francesca Polizzi.Areal Böhler, Düsseldorf
- 10 April 2024ExhibitionDaniele Franzella and Francesca Polizzi at the Johanna Ey Foundation, DüsseldorfDaniele Franzella and Francesca Polizzi in a two-person exhibition at the Johanna Ey Foundation, Düsseldorf, 10 April – 11 May 2024.Johanna Ey Foundation, Düsseldorf
- 10 March 2024ExhibitionCollaboration of RizzutoGallery with Societas SiciliaeDe Grandi, Franzella and Polizzi take part in Societas Siciliae at Collica & Partners, San Gregorio di Catania, 10 March – 10 May 2024.Collica & Partners, San Gregorio di Catania
- 13 October 2023FairLucio Pozzi at ArtVerona 2023 with RizzutoGallery and Galleria Michela RizzoAt ArtVerona 2023 Lucio Pozzi was shown on two stands: RizzutoGallery, with Franzella and Marino, and Galleria Michela Rizzo.ArtVerona, Verona