INTRODUCTION

During my long life as a well-known art critic, I have always hoped to be able to meet a particular and outstanding talent. I have often had the fortune to be able to review real and interesting talents, but I believe “the encounter”, as I define it, just happened now.

A painter who, like Van Gogh, knew how to give soul even to a pair of old shoes, or, like Modigliani, who knew how to show the soul of a character in a simple portrait.

A painter who does not need to die so that his genius would be acknowledged.

FRANCO ABBINA, a painter whose talent is well recognised in China, where they set up an exhibition in Shangai with thirty of his paintings aside Picasso’s works!

In this direct comparison, FRANCO ABBINA has not lost credit, because he simply stayed faithful to himself.

His characters express their being through a few, essential strokes, which discover and imprint the souls captured by the painter.

FRANCO ABBINA can be defined as A SOULS’ THIEF.

The “KISS”, which surely will enter in the historical series of paintings that represent the same subject, is, as a spectator wrote, “clearly sensational” for its simplicity.

“The drunk of tears” and “The tavern of lost loves” are paintings that have been sent and displayed in the most important modern art museums in Japan: Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima.

No need to add anything else.

One of his exhibitions must not be missed because it leaves a mark deep within and hope for love in life.
Vincenzo Guarracino

Vincenzo Guarracino is considered one of the most experts and critics of Italian Language and Literature. His books have been translated and edited several times. He is also a Latin and Greek translator, and one of the most renowned art critic.
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