Francesco
Fossati

Francesco Fossati (1985) is visual artist and wild plants forager. His research focuses on respect for nature and environmental sustainability, creates works with the lowest possible environmental impact, he has created eco-gardens, produced pigments and oil colors with natural substances and used practices of social involvement and local labor for the realization of works of public art.

He recently created an eco-sustainable artotheque at the Porto Museum of Tricase (IT), he participated in the exhibition Solstice curated by American artist Judy Chicago at the Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe (NM) part of the larger project called Create Art for Earth launched by Hans Ulrich Obrist together with Judy Chicago and Jane Fonda. He supported the transition of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles to become the first fully solar-powered museum and in the last months he launched a shared experimentation of natural oil colors of his own production. At the moment there are more than eighty artists from different generations (including Mimmo Paladino, Miltos Manetas, Luca Bertolo and Luca Pancrazi among others) who have shown interest in the project and received tubes of oil paint produced by Fossati.