crystal artistic and sculpture made in Italia

1. The Crystals
and sculptures
of
Franca Franchi

2. WORKS

3. Crystal table with underlying work
(190x100 cm)

4. Water Crystal, 2009 - Fragments of mirror and glass on wood, 130x185 cm

5. Crystal “Preghiera alle Bahamas”, 2009
Fragments of mirror and glass on wood, 123x187 cm

6. Water crystal, 2009
Fragments of mirror, glass
and crystal on wood,
83x38 cm

7. Water crystal, 2009
Installation
Fragments of mirror, glass and stones on
crystal, 71x40 cm

8. Crystal “Il confine”, 2009
Installation
Fragments of mirror, crystal and
glass on crystal - 100x40 cm

9. Crystal “Il mio mondo”, 2011
Sculpture
Crystal, mirror and paint, 30x32x35 cm

10. Crystal “Vele”, 2011
Sculpture
Crystal, mirror and paint, 28x33x45 cm

11. Sculptures to wear

12. Parure
Steel necklace with pendant made of
mirror, crystal and Murano glass on the silver
base (Diameter 13 cm - Height 8 cm)
Mirror, crystal and Murano glass brooch on
the steel base (Length 7 cm )
Crystal, mirror and Murano glass ring on the
silver base (Length 3,5 cm )

13. Parure
Steel necklace with pendant made of mirror
on the brass base (Diameter 13 cm - Height 6 cm)
Mirror brooch on the brass base (Lenght 6 cm)

14. Steel necklace with pendant
made of mirror, crystal and
Murano glass on the steel base
(Diameter 13 cm - Height 10 cm)

15. Steel necklace with pendant made of mirror
and crystal on the silver base (Diameter 13 cm -
Height 7 cm)

16. Steel necklace with pendant made of mirror,
crystal and venetian gold on the steel base
(Diameter 13 cm - Height 9 cm)

17. Living sculptures

18. Crystal table with underlying work
(160x80 cm)

19. Floor lamp off (185x16 cm)

20. Floor lamp on (185x16 cm)

21. Table lamp off (27x20 cm)

22. Table lamp on (27x20cm)

23. Crystal tablemat (40x30 cm)

24. Crystal tablemats (40x30 cm)

25. ABOUT THE ARTIST
Franca Franchi was born in 1961 in Piacenza (Italy), where she works. She lives in the
countryside outside the city. She attended the traditional Classical Language
Grammar School there, and later took a degree in Law, and has now been working
as a lawyer for more than twenty years.
Her artistic talents, which during her adolescence were expressed in painting, for
which she was awarded prizes (some of which by the Ricci Oddi Gallery Of Modern
Art, Piacenza), were until recently channelled mainly into interior design, with the
creation of living spaces in a variety of difference residences.
In 2008, while continuing in her career as a lawyer, she took up artistic work again,
finding inspiration in the fascinating theory of a Japanese scientist which consider the
influence of human words on water through vibration, and the energy originating
from the words themselves, which in certain conditions bring about the creation of
highly harmonic water crystals. This was the inspiration behind the realization of the
artist’s “crystals”, though she distances herself figuratively in her own artistic
compositions from the water crystals so superbly photographed in the work of the
scientist.
The artist uses exclusively waste mirror and glass for her work. At the heat of her
artistic development lies the search for harmony, and the striving towards harmony is
therefore manifested in the resulting artistic composition.
Franca Franchi has participated in an increasing number of exhibitions over the last
years both in Italy and in foreign countries (Dubai - United Arab Emirates, New York -
USA, France).