Born in Argentina in 1986, Facundo Tosso Tessari was fortunate to grow up in a family environment filled with creative stimulation, which helped counteract his dismal academic performance due to a late-diagnosed dyslexia. Having a renowned visual artist on his mother's side of the family made exploring painting an easily accessible path, and that's exactly what Facundo did until he decided to rebel and venture into the world of filmmaking.
At the age of 10, with the support of his parents and after persuading ten classmates, he embarked on the production of his first short film as a director. After nine months of work, during which children gathered on two weekends each month, "Falso Encubrimiento" was premiered at the Recoleta Cultural Center in Buenos Aires.
A few years later, in 2000, he exhibited his first photograph at the "Voices and Images of Young People from Mercosur" exhibition organized by UNESCO in Paris and by the OEI in Madrid.
Following an adolescence marked by the need to leave his country to immigrate to Spain, Facundo continued to pursue his passion for cinema in a self-taught manner. Ignoring the advice of his teachers to study Fine Arts, he chose to deepen his conceptual understanding by enrolling in Philosophy, where he became a student of aesthetics under Fernando Castro. Class after class, Castro encouraged him to abandon the academic path and focus on creating art rather than studying it.
This is how Facundo began producing and directing a dozen independent short films with a fellow philosophy classmate, Carolina Corvillo, who was his creative and romantic partner for 12 years. With her, he premiered "Dentro" in 2018, a short film that, while revisiting the myth of Persephone, depicted a sculptor turning his model into the sculpture itself.
It wasn't until the pandemic of 2020 that Facundo reconciled with painting, rediscovering and rekindling his passion for it. Now, while preparing for the production of his first feature film, "Camino a Destroy," he is also working on the piece that will be the focus of "Be Careful With the Shoe," his debut solo exhibition.
