Flavio Favelli, Behind the cover ItaliaImballaggio 7-8/2022

Born in 1967, after graduating in Oriental History from the University of Bologna, Flavio Favelli from 1995 to 2001 took part in the Link Project, Italy’s first independent cultural production center founded in 1994, based in a former pharmaceutical warehouse behind the Bologna Centrale train station.

He has exhibited solo projects at MAXXI in Rome, Centro per l’Arte Pecci in Prato, Fondazione Sandretto in Turin, Maison Rouge in Paris, and 176 Projectspace in London. In 2008 he designed and built the Waiting Room in the Bologna Pantheon, inside the Certosa Monumental Cemetery, which accommodates the celebration of secular funerals. In 2010 he was artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome.

He participated in the Italics exhibition held at Palazzo Grassi in Venice (2008) and at the Museum of Contemporary Art - MOCA in Chicago (2009).  He was also present at two editions of the Venice Biennale: the 50th (Clandestini, curated by F. Bonami) and the 55th (Italian Pavilion curated by B. Pietromarchi).

In 2015, his work “The Angels of Heroes” was chosen by the Quirinale and the Ministry of Defense to represent fallen soldiers on the November 4 anniversary.

A word from the author.

«Tin cans have always featured, for many decades, the Italian daily imagination. cooky, candy and various sweet, but also oil and car product tins, were not only containers, but they conveyed shapes, wording, drawings and images that stay in the collective memory.

As in “Dolcezze Feriali” (Weekday Treats), the multiple tones and patinas of the tins, with folds that smell of cloth, give the composition a formal balance aided by various gilted reflections».

Flavio Favelli