DIRECTOR

PIETRO FRANESI

Pietro Franesi doesn't remember
where he was born,
only that it was in a double nine year.

He began to collect art works
in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

His real schools were the Ermitage,
the State Russian Museum,
the State Tretyakov Gallery
and the studios of many russian artists.

In 2000 he was the Director
of some Contemporary Art Galleries
in Saint Petersburg and Moscow,
followed in Bologna and Venezia,
and in London in 2005.

In 2003 he began to study the NY art market
and in 2005 he opened the NY1art Gallery,
at 515 West 25th Street.

Today, he is organizing the NY Biennale Art 2009.

He loves to work with artists who search
new expressive forms and contents,
especially related to the immaterial values.
He believes in a current revolutionary moment,
effect of the crash between old values of
the material development ( business & blood )
and the new values of the immaterial development
( sustainability and love ).

The art has been accomplice and backer of
the old system.

Today he engages his full participation
to this new phase of the human history,
where immateriality and quality will prevail
on materiality and quantity.