{"id":9293,"date":"2026-09-22T17:48:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.domenicofratianni.art\/?page_id=9293"},"modified":"2026-09-23T16:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:30:33","slug":"exhibitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.domenicofratianni.art\/index.php\/en\/exhibitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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It was while visiting an event dedicated to engraving in Venice that, talking with Maestro Giorgio Trentin (father of the historic Associazione degli Incisori Veneti), Domenico Fratianni had the idea of creating, in his own Campobasso, an event to open this extraordinary but little-known art to the general public, \u201coutside the official circuits\u201d.
He thus wrote a manifesto-text that has guided, through satisfactions and difficulties, the Biennale dell\u2019Incisione Italiana Contemporanea \u201cCitt\u00e0 di Campobasso\u201d (as it was called until 2020) up to its eleventh edition; on the occasion of that edition, the manifesto was revisited to be gradually brought to fulfilment in all its potential.
The BIIC is currently one of the longest-running biennials dedicated to engraving in Italy and, probably, the main \u2014 if not the only \u2014 point of reference in Southern Italy.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Over 625 artists
3 guest countries
Over 300 works received as donations
15 catalogues distributed to national and international libraries<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Engraving is an extremely lively art, in constant ferment yet little known, but it sinks its roots into the great history of art, interweaving with that of painting, where most of the great masters of the latter were also excellent \u2014 at times outstanding \u2014 engravers: Mantegna, D\u00fcrer, Titian, Rembrandt, the Carracci, Callot, Tiepolo, Goya, Degas, Corot, Klinger, Picasso, Klee, Kokoschka.<\/p>

Others chose engraving as their principal or exclusive means of expression \u2014 two names above all: Piranesi and Dor\u00e9.<\/p>

Since 2021 the Associazione Domenico Fratianni, thanks to the invaluable contribution of its artistic director, Prof. Floriano De Santi, has brought to Campobasso the art of the great historic masters of engraving, staging retrospective and thematic exhibitions that explore, in turn, different facets of the challenges this artistic language has taken up within the great river of the history of painting.<\/p>

The exhibitions are held in alternate years to the editions of the BIIC, of which they form a kind of in-depth companion path, spreading knowledge of the glorious past of engraving.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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On 17 November 2022 the XI edition of the BIIC \u201cDomenico Fratianni\u201d was inaugurated, for the second time at Palazzo GIL in Campobasso \u2014 the most suitable venue for an exhibition like the Biennale, which this year pairs the 116 works by the invited artists with the entire engraved output of Carlo Carr\u00e0, made up of 111 etchings and lithographs, on loan from the Archivio Carr\u00e0 in Milan.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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About 230 works in total across 3 exhibition rooms
4 interactive totems with content created specifically for the exhibition
2 videos
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Dal 2 ottobre al 16 dicembre 2021, al Palazzo ex-GIL di Campobasso, si \u00e8 tenuta la mostra tematica “Yo lo vi. Visioni di guerra in Rubens, Goya e Fratianni”: un viaggio intenso nel dolore provocato dai conflitti armati vissuti dal punto di vista dei civili e delle vittime.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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– Pieter Paul Rubens, \u201cThe Consequences of War\u201d, world premiere<\/span>
– Francisco Goya, 42 etchings from the \u201cDesastres de la guerra\u201d cycle<\/span>
– Domenico Fratianni, 26 etchings, 3 canvases and 30 preparatory drawings<\/span>
– Emotive video installation<\/span>
– Plus a retrospective exhibition on the engraver Leonardo Castellani<\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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