The Roman Sights of Francesco Zavattari

As announced at the beginning of the year, Eitch Borromini has the pleasure to welcome again the works of one of the most multifaceted contemporary artists and whom our guests have already had the opportunity to appreciate. For a journey through the centuries of the Eternal City’s beauty, this time across twenty-five incredible engravings which combine the art of the Nineteenth century with the traits that made him recognizable in the world.

‘Grand Tour: Roman sights’
After the exhibition ‘Caput Mundi’ told also on these pages, of splendid photographic shots taken – with natural light and without tripods or flash – from out seventeenth-century mansion in Navona Square, a return to the drawing. Or, better to say, to the “vintage” engravings enriched by graphic and visual interventions: a technique developed by Francesco thanks to research carried out in recent years together with the nearby Antiquarian Bookshop ‘Calligrammes’. Different expression means, same protagonist: Rome. For a journey and a stay that become a walk through Time, History and Beauty along the corridors of the Pamphilj’s architectural complex wing in which we are located: that of the Collegio Innocenziano and of our Art Gallery. Corridors at the end of which you will also find the ‘Borromini Terrace’ - place of Italian flavors, nestled between the dome and one of the twin bell towers of Sant’Agnese in Agone Church, from where admiring the monumental Navona Square from above.

All roads lead to Rome
Since his debut at just 19 years old, Francesco experiments with painting, sculpture, design, video-art, theater direction and photography. But - be it murals or installations, historical or chromatic research - it is the design that “marks the course” of his evolution. And, this, from his native Tuscany to Spain, Portugal, England and Holland but also United States and China: to this day, Francesco counts in fact twenty official series in twenty-one years of activity, more than forty personal exhibitions, two theater directions, over twenty installations and more than fivehundred international publications.
Of this year, also the project that sees him as ambassador of Italian art, color and design to Beijing and Shanghai, in two important fairs dedicated to the chromatic harmony in everyday spaces. In other words, to the concept of “home” and of “feel at home” thanks to the colors and materials used - that is, the same idea that inspired us in creating the welcoming, elegant and intimate spaces of Eitch Borromini.
A special exhibition in a special place, which actually Francesco calls “my Roman home”. Because, although his works have so far reached thirty Countries on four Continents, the deep bond with the Eternal City, Navona Square and Eitch’s privileged spaces in the Baroque heart of Rome is here to stay.