Francesco Simetti

c'era una volta una guerra (gianni rodari)

Gobelin fabric, virgin wool & recycled polyester · 340 × 420 cm · 2024

Designed by Francesco Simetti, interpreted and realized by Giovanni Bonotto on a jumbo jacquard loom. Exhibited at Homo Faber 2024, Venice.

c'era una volta una guerra

Gobelin fabric · 2024

tu fai "pum", e ridi; (bertold brecht)

Gobelin fabric, virgin wool & recycled polyester · 340 × 420 cm · 2024

Designed by Francesco Simetti, interpreted and realized by Giovanni Bonotto on a jumbo jacquard loom. Exhibited at Homo Faber 2024, Venice.

tu fai "pum", e ridi;

Gobelin fabric · 2024

Questa Stanza non ha più Pareti

Printed ceramic slabs · Permanent installation · 2024

Site-specific permanent installation at Officine Saffi, Milan. Combines elements from Etruscan, Turkish, Greek, and Italian ceramic traditions, bridging geographical and cultural boundaries with natural landscape imagery.

Questa Stanza non ha più Pareti

Ceramic · 2024

Doris and Arethusa

Glazed stoneware · 45 × 38 × 7 cm, 44 × 40 × 8 cm · 2024

A pair of glazed stoneware works exploring mythological figures and the transformation of natural forms into ceramic surfaces.

Doris and Arethusa

Glazed stoneware · 2024

Skamandros

Glazed porcelain · 35 × 38 × 35 cm · 2023

A glazed porcelain sculpture drawing on classical river mythology, exploring the intersection of landscape, water, and mythological form.

Skamandros

Glazed porcelain · 2023

Souvenirs of the Future

Glazed stoneware, enamel, velvet print · Pera Museum, Istanbul · 2023

Exhibition curated by Ulya Soley at Pera Museum, Istanbul. Features Temple (glazed stoneware and enamel), Social Pyramid (glazed stoneware), and Petting Wilderness (print on velvet, 354 × 130 cm).

Souvenirs of the Future

Mixed media · 2023

Come un limone lunare

Mixed installation · XNL Contemporanea, Piacenza · 2022

Solo exhibition at XNL Contemporanea, Piacenza, curated by Paola Nicolin. Exploring relationships between natural imagery, cultural memory, and material transformation.

Come un limone lunare

Installation · 2022

Terrestre

Collage, ceramic, slide projection · Francesca Minini, Milano · 2021

Explores the fragility of air and water as fundamental life elements. Includes the sculptural group Muro — turquoise glass paste elements inspired by ancient civilizations, echoing the shields and body armor of modern police forces.

Terrestre

Collage & ceramic · 2021

Curling, arching, breaking

Print on cotton · PANORAMA, Procida · 2021

Site-specific work curated by Vincenzo de Bellis replacing residents' clotheslines in Procida with digital fabric collages. Explores the relationship between humankind and nature through water imagery as both resource and existential threat.

Curling, arching, breaking

Print on cotton · 2021

Unrelenting

Video animation, 5 min · Italian Consulate façade, NYC · 2020

Created during spring 2020 quarantine for Magazzino's Homemade program. Layered plant imagery explores how animals and plants began to reclaim spaces during human absence — an uncanny overlap between the natural and technological worlds.

Unrelenting

Video animation · 2020

Uncinata

Belgian unglazed stoneware · 90 × 48 × 35 cm · 2018

Installation with two totemic sculptures and three-dimensional collages, combining artist-sculpted leaves with pre-existing molds. The title derives from botanic morphology, referencing hooked leaf shapes. In collaboration with ceramist Aida Bertozzi, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza.

Uncinata

Belgian unglazed stoneware · 2018

Swell

Printed panels, tracks & robots · Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn · 2017

Motorized site-specific installation examining human environmental impact on the Gowanus Canal. Combines appropriated images from Brooklyn waterways with theatrical aesthetics inspired by puppet theater and Baroque automata. Uses ornament and subtext as instruments of political critique.

Swell

Printed panels & robots · 2017