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Franko B was born in Milan and has lived in London since 1979. He has been creating work across video, photography, performance, painting, installation, sculpture and mixed media since 1990. He has performed at the Tate Modern, ICA, South London Gallery and Beaconsfield. He has presented work internationally in Zagreb, Mexico City, Milan, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Copenhagen, Madrid and Vienna, Tate Liverpool and most recently at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium and the Crawford municipal gallery in Cork, Ireland. Franko B lectures widely, including at St. Martins School of Art, DasArt, New York University and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He has been the subject of two monographs, 'Franko B' (Black Dog Publishing 1998) and 'Oh Lover Boy' (2001) and has published a photographic project entitled 'Still Life' (2003).
Franko B has recently decided to discontinue bleeding in performance, and is pursuing other challenging creative strategies, including painting. In Don't Leave Me This Way, his latest performance work in progress, Franko B's body is presented naked and unpainted, seated on a raised plinth or altar. The audience is allowed time to look at his body, to approach it as a sculptural form. Don't Leave Me This Way will continue his practical research into the politics of performance, in new and unexpected ways." Blinded by Love is a monographic publication on the work of Franko B. The book documents Franko B’s practical research into the politics of performance, covering over 15 years of artistic activity. The works in the volume span from paintings and objects, characterized by the recurring triptych Man-Heart-Cross, to the documentation concerning live performances in which the artist’s flesh and blood become a canvas for the representation of vulnerability, pain and loss. Franko B Jennifer Doyle David Thorp Amelia Jones Monica Trigona |
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Copyright © Franko B 2007
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