Sito Promozionale di Cultura del Basso Lazio dell' Associazione onlus PRETA Via Sotto le mura snc - 03041 Alvito (FR) p.i. 02194120602 Francesco Nardi © 2002-2011 BIOGRAPHY Francesco Nardi was born in Pontecorvo on  22 June 1963. Now he lives and works at San  Giovanni Incarico, province of Frosinone,  midway Rome and Naples. He approached painting in a autodidactic and autonomous way., after a long series of  travels that ripened his artistic language.:  Athens, Malaga, Istambul, Amsterdam.,  London where the stages of his travelling  until hi arrived in Paris, where he lived for 2  years (1989-90). He was inspired and  stimulated by the climate and culture of  France where he produced his first and rare  figurative compositions and, later, some  colour application paintings that, on coming  back to Italy, he developed and never  abandoned. His previous interest for psychoanalysis  fostered his paintings art in representing a  world clearly irrelevant to the visible reality. Than he began personal and group  exhibitions positions both in Italy and  abroad. In 2000 he went to the United States where  he exhibited his works at the Bush Gallery in  Providence (RI).  On his return to Italy he cooperated with the  art Gallery “Il collezionista” in Tarquinia, and  the Gallery “XXI Secolo” in Padua, where he  sold several paintings.  Three years later one of this pictures was  selected by tha art critic Maurizio Calvesi,  who was the president of the judging  committee in a important painting  competition at the Castello Caietani in Fondi.  His pictures are collected by personages of  the show business too and are present in  public galleries. He is now experiencing, in his stuy of San  Giovanni Incarico, unorthodox techniques of  applying colours.