Tomorrow at 5.30pm the exhibition opensRossoblù Pencils and Brushes. Franco Buffarello’s caricatures“: exhibition of a series of caricatures of footballers, but also of characters linked to Genoa and the Genoese world, specially created for the occasion by the Genoese artist Franco Buffarello.
Buffarello has been operating since the early 1980s and has had a very important artistic and professional life.
Teacher of pictorial disciplines at the Klee Barabino Art School in Genoa, he was a collaborator of prestigious newspapers, among which, at a national level, Tuttosport, Il Guerin Sportivo and the Sports Editorial Staff of RAI 1 stand out. In Genoa he collaborated with Buongiorno, Il Lavoro and Telecities.
Already in 1982 it had important international recognition, having been included among the first “10 Caricaturists worldwide” by the prestigious Jury of the “XIX Salon International de la Caricature” in Montreal, Canada.
He is also a multifaceted artist, in fact he plays piano and keyboards in a prestigious and well-known Genoese group.
(Franco Buffarello): “A man who works with his hands is a worker, a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman, a man who works with his hands, his brain and his heart he is an artist.”
The exhibition is curated by Giovanna Liconti and Giovanni Villani and will remain open at the Museum of the History of Genoa from 24 May to 15 September, from Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 7pm.
