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Francesco Mazzi

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Francesco Mazzi was born in La Spezia, a major trading port in Italy, and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 15. He started his career as a chef at a young age and has been active in the international fine dining world. He also served as executive chef for Giorgio Armani, providing dishes that embody the brand's aesthetic sense. He established his own style of modern and elegant Italian cuisine and built a brilliant career in Italy, Europe, America, the Middle East, and Japan.

He also developed a passion for art and established his own art style that combines classical techniques with a modern approach through self-study. He is known for his intricate compositions that utilize "3D FRAME PUSH-UP" and bas-relief techniques that go beyond the boundaries of the frame, mixing pure gold and pure silver with oil paints using his own techniques. His advanced techniques and original expressions have been praised by the Undersecretary of State of the Italian Ministry of Culture as "a painting goldsmith and a miniaturist of material and color with outstanding technique and formal sensibility."

In 2020, he founded MAZZI Co., Ltd. and developed the fine art brand "MAZZI FINE ART". He opened "MAZZI FINE ART GALLERY" in Osaka and northern Tuscany, and promotes international creative activities that combine art and cuisine.

In 2022, in collaboration with Italian art critics, the Municipality of Florence, and the Italian UNESCO Association, the special exhibition "JAPANESE BEAUTY" will travel around Italy's World Heritage Sites. It will be an opportunity to convey the charm of Japanese beauty, and the works will be praised for their "excellent quality" and "original technical innovation", receiving two medals.

In 2023, he will be awarded a trophy by the city of Assisi and the UNESCO World Heritage Site for "Outstanding Achievement in Innovation and Artistic Research" at the special exhibition "SHINE ON JAPAN" held at the World Heritage site of Assisi. His contribution as a bridge connecting Western and Eastern cultures and promoting peace was highly praised.

"Mazzi has a unique vision of promoting international peace and deep respect through his work, brilliantly fusing Western and Eastern cultures."

Mazzi says, "Art enriches life, and its ultimate goal is to lead people to greater happiness." He believes that works have memories and can gain experiences like humans, and continues to create works with their own memories and strengths, drawing inspiration from myths, legends and natural phenomena.

He also focuses on "MAZZI FINE DINING," which combines art, cuisine and video. Here, he practices his philosophy of "the fusion of cuisine and art," and you can enjoy a course dinner based on his recipes and art at the same time.

His philosophy is one he has acquired from the dual perspectives of both chef and artist, and he argues that the "fusion of cuisine and art" is linked to the "cultural foundations" of when humans first lit fire to cook and painted symbols on cave walls. "MAZZI FINE ART GALLERY" is a place that recreates the coexistence of cuisine and art in prehistoric times in the present day, fusing innovative, high-quality eclectic art with exceptional cuisine, telling its story with video. "We aim to provide visitors with an aesthetic experience and to connect the cultural foundations of cuisine and art deeply with international society."

MAZZI FINE ART GALLERY Major Events History

XV Edition FLORENCE BIENNALE Fortezza da Basso , 2027

The Royale (Hotel New Otani Osaka / February 8-9, 2025)

ART SHINSAIBASHI (Shinsaibashi PARCO SPACE Osaka / January 23-27, 2025)

ART&FOOD,DINNER EVENT,MAZZI FINE ART × 25 Hours Hotel Florence (May 14-15, 2024)

International Contemporary Art Fair (Zurich / April 12-14, 2024)

Pavi Art Mostra Mercato d'Arte MODERNA CONTEMPORANEA (Pavia /April 6-7, 2024)

(un)EXPECTED ART FAIR (Milan /March 1-3, 2024)

ART SHINSAIBASHI (Shinsaibashi PARCO SPACE Osaka / January 17-22, 2024)

art KYOTO 2023 (Nijo Castle,Kyoto /World Heritage Site /October 8-12, 2023)

D-LUXE 2023 (Imperial Hotel Osaka /September 17, 2023)

D-art,ART 2023 (Matsuzakaya Nagoya /September 8-12, 2023)

art stage OSAKA 2023 (Grand Cube Osaka FAT Collection /September 1-3, 2023)

D-art,ART 2023 (Matsuzakaya Shizuoka / June 28-July 4, 2023)　

FRANCESCO MAZZI Special Exhibition "SHINE ON JAPAN" (Assisi /May 19-28, 2023)

FRANCESCO MAZZI x INUNAKISAN SHIPPOURYUUJI Special Exhibition "ANTICHE CREDENZE " (Osaka /March 17-April 2, 2023)

ART FAIR TOKYO 2023 (Tokyo International Forum / March 9-12, 2023)

D-art,ART2023 (Daimaru Tokyo / February 16-21, 2023)

FRANCESCO MAZZI Special Exhibition "JAPANESE BEAUTY" Italian Touring Exhibition Trilogy: Part III / SOCIETÀ DELLE BELLE ARTI CIRCOLO DEGLI ARTISTI “CASA DI DANTE” (Jan 14-26, 2023)

FRANCESCO MAZZI Special Exhibition "JAPANESE BEAUTY" Italian Touring Exhibition Trilogy: Part II / Cividale del Friuli / Convent of Santa Maria World Heritage (July 1-20, 2022)

FRANCESCO MAZZI Special Exhibition "JAPANESE BEAUTY" Italian Touring Exhibition Trilogy: Part I / Bologna (May 13-June 1, 2022)

Mitsukoshi Spring Gifts Party (New Otani Tokyo / Feb 2022)

Poltrona Frau x Mazzi Francesco Special Exhibition (Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi, Tokyo 5th floor,Poltrona Frau / Jan 26-Feb 11, 2022)

DESIGNART TOKYO 2021 (Tokyo, Poltrona Frau x Mazzi Francesco Special Exhibition / October 22-November 30, 2021)

FRANCESCO MAZZI First Solo Exhibition Spring/Summer Collection (Tokyo / Feb 27-Mar. 2, 2020)

“Be inspired by myths and legends to create objects with their own memory and strength”

`` Art enriches life and its ultimate function is to make people happier. ''

They say about me

Art critic, journalist, article, excerpt

Francesco Mazzi is a goldsmith of painting, a miniaturist of matter and color with great technical and formal sensitivity, an archaic type of craftsman-artist thrown, as if by a bizarre twist of fate, into the contemporary era.

His works, curated down to the smallest detail with rare materials, precious woods, pigments, precious metals, gold leaf, hand-made pastes and colours, are meticulously decorated and finished like mysterious devotional objects:

precious and rare treasure chests of an only apparently anachronistic beauty, the art objects of this monk of painting appear, today, as capsules of a time which, in the happy incongruity of a beauty found miraculously intact in the century of the denial of every canon, returns to seduce with the grace of a research that seems to stubbornly want to challenge the passage of time,