FRANCESCO TRAMUTA - 'A Journey of Italian Soul'
A Journey of Italian Soul by Francesco Tramuta
4 September - 27 October
FRANCESCO TRAMUTA
Born in 1966 in Sciacca (Italy), Francesco Tramuta is an artist whose roots lie deeply in Mediterranean culture and in the cinematic imagery of his childhood. After graduating from the Istituto Statale d’Arte as a draftsman in architecture and interior design, he moved to France, where he has lived and worked since 1994, developing a large part of his artistic career and taking part in numerous solo and group exhibitions.
His painting today is recognized as a form of figurative illustration with a comic-book style: a consistently present, precise, and narrative line that defines his oil paintings. The central theme of his work is the couple, explored in all its facets: love, passion, jealousy, betrayal, irony, and complicity. His scenes depict everyday moments reinterpreted within atmospheres that evoke 1950s Italian cinema, with references to retro elegance and the codes of human comedy.
Tramuta’s line is direct and lively, at times playfully light. His colors shift between flat bronze tones and warmer, softer, more nuanced hues, creating a balance between graphic immediacy and painterly emotion.
After completing his interior design studies in Italy, it was in the Eastern Pyrenees that his artistic vision fully matured: initially drawn to geometric abstraction and prehistoric rock engravings, he later embraced a figurative approach deeply influenced by memories of Cinema Paradiso, rooted in his youth in Sciacca. This is where his iconography takes shape: women with long dark hair and flowing dresses, teasing like Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale, or Gina Lollobrigida; men who echo the poses of the protagonists of La Dolce Vita, with their cigarettes, tailored jackets, Vespas, and horn combs tucked into their back pockets.
Tramuta openly embraces this figurative heritage, where the worlds of Fellini, Gassman, Tognazzi, and Manfredi resurface in his canvases as a nostalgic homage to the golden age of Italian cinema. Hidden behind his sable brushes, the artist portrays stories of contemporary couples immersed in timeless settings, allowing viewers the freedom to recognize themselves and reinterpret the emotional codes of the human comedy.
