Andrea Granchi (1947-2024) was an artist, filmmaker, curator, and professor. Born into an artistic family and a promising interpreter of the solid Florentine painting tradition, he is recognized as one of the pioneers of Italian Artist’s Cinema and was an untiring promoter of numerous cultural initiatives, festivals, and national and international exhibitions on Artist’s Cinema. As Lara-Vinca Masini wrote, from the early 1970s onwards, “film, photography, and photographic emulsion on canvas became for Granchi the extension of the painting gesture and, at the same time, its desecration.”

The volume collects almost sixty years of studies, research, and experiments related to the evolution process in the manipulation of the image that has always accompanied Andrea Granchi’s life. The monograph has a well-defined structure that follows and documents the intertwining and succession of periods in his activity, each one leading to the next, providing a chronologically detailed account of events, works, and the parallel intersections that took place in Granchi’s artistic research on moving images. Special attention is given to publications, documents, as well as the writings of the artist and a selection of correspondence with Italian and foreign artists during exhibitions and festivals of artist’s cinema curated by Granchi in Italy and abroad.

Andrea Granchi, artist, filmmaker, curator, and professor, was born in Florence in 1947. He graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in 1969, won the City of Florence Prize for young artists in 1966, and the Stibbert Prize for painting in 1971. He is recognized as one of the protagonists of Italian Artist’s Cinema, in which he made numerous works “[…] among the most lucid, ironic, and perfect artist’s films, a genre that in Italy he advanced among the first […]” (L.-V. Masini, 1989), and curated international exhibitions (1976-1980) both in Italy and abroad (Centre Pompidou-Cinémathèque française, Paris; Philadelphia). His films are preserved at Centro Pecci in Prato, MAXXI in Rome, the Home Movies Archive of the Cineteca in Bologna, and Museo Novecento in Florence.