ARTIST

Francesco Mazzi

Biography

Born in 1977 originally from La Spezia, an important trading port in Italy.

He began his culinary journey in Los Angeles at the age of 15, established his own style, and was active in the international fine dining scene from a young age.

He has built an impressive international track record in Italy, Europe, America, the Middle East, and the Far East. Based on his extensive experience and new vision, he founded MAZZI Co., Ltd.In 2020, developed the fine art brand "MAZZI FINE ART", and opened the MAZZI FINE ART GALLERY in Osaka and Northern Tuscany. This led to building an international creative corporate base centered around Mazzi's work..

His original technique, "3D FRAME PUSH-UP", which uses a thick canvas and a unique method to expand the work that emerges three-dimensionally outside the frame, gives the work a rich three-dimensionality and a new sense of presence, and is highly regarded as a "total art" that harmonizes with the space.

He is always pursuing art of outstanding quality through innovative research.

This highly advanced and precise production process, which skillfully combines classical and contemporary elements, mixes rare materials such as pure gold and pure silver with oil paints using unique techniques, and draws using the technique of bas-relief, has been praised by the Italian Undersecretary of State for the Ministry of Culture as "a painting goldsmith and a miniaturist of material and color with great technique and formal sensibility."

In 2022, in collaboration with Italian art critics, the Municipality of Florence and the Italian UNESCO Association, FRANCESCO MAZZI's special exhibition "JAPANESE BEAUTY" toured Italy's World Heritage Sites.

The exhibition was a wonderful opportunity to spread the appeal of Japanese beauty, and was honored to receive two medals in praise of the "excellent quality" and "original technical innovation" of the works.

In 2023, at the FRANCESCO MAZZI special exhibition "SHINE ON JAPAN" held at the World Heritage site of Assisi, he received a trophy of merit "for outstanding innovation and artistic research" from the city of Assisi and the UNESCO World Heritage site. The award was given in recognition of his contribution as a bridge to connect Western and Eastern cultures through artistic research and promote peace among peoples.

"Mazzi has a unique vision that brilliantly combines Western and Eastern cultures and sheds light on the magnificent human heritage of promoting international peace and deep respect through his work."

Francesco Mazzi's vision is rooted in a brilliant career in international fine dining and fine art. His philosophy is that of both a chef and an artist, and the fusion of cuisine and art recalls the cultural foundations of the time when humans first lit fire and painted symbols on cave walls. MAZZI FINE ART GALLERY is a modern-day recreation of the source of the prehistoric cultural fusion of cuisine and art. Innovative eclectic art and outstanding cuisine are fused together, and the story is told through video. We aim to provide visitors with an aesthetic experience that enhances the senses, and to ensure that art and culture are always deeply connected to international society.

It has been decided that MAZZI FINE ART GALLERY will have a special stand at the "XV Edition FLORENCE BIENNALE Florence 2025".

MAZZI FINE ART GALLERY Major Events History

XV Edition FLORENCE BIENNALE Fortezza da Basso 18-26 October 2025

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

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

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

(un)EXPECTED ART FAIR (MILAN SUPERSTUDIO MAXI / 1-3 March 2024)

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

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

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

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

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