Angela Fagu has been educated at the Academy of Fine Art in Florence in painting and engraving, achieving maximum profit.

Subsequently she has enriched her artistic experience taking part in numerous exhibitions and art.

Currently Angela Fagu is the owner of a contemporary art gallery in the heart of Florence.
As Art Director is interested in the selection and promotion of international artists, with passion and extreme care, in order to promote the development of the new trends and artistic expressions, as well as create exciting opportunities of confrontation about the current art multilingualism.

Style

The Angela Fagu’s Art, both in pictorial that in engraver field, is characterized by an extraordinary expressive authenticity, combined with a deep taste in the tract and an excellent method of composition. The constructive energy of the graphic sign as well as the firm compositional structure, that holds each figuration, are the result of a careful preparation in the academic area.
The strength of the sign and the decisive plastic-structural definition of the compositions is tempered, however, thanks to a general sensitivity of vision, which is manifested in the delicate chiaroscuro passages in the refined and enveloping atmospheric modulations. The artworks thus maintain an intimate and refined dimension even when the subjects is illustrious as in “Portait of Pietro Annigoni”.
In portraits the artistic language of Angela Fagu seems to express its highest potential, creating images insightful, where the optic truth is interwoven with a subtle but intense psychological dynamism.
Engraving and painting are two means and autonomous languages but in Angela Fagu’s work are able to integrate and overlap themselves in a single vision, where the creative vision is always regulated and harmonized by the delicacy of spirit.

My name is Daniele Franchi and for over twenty years I have been teaching, creating, narrating, and sharing art. I have had the privilege of working with international students, particularly Americans, guiding them through the visible and invisible threads of art history and the Italian language and culture.

From the Renaissance to the avant-gardes, from university classrooms to museums, my journey has taken shape through academic courses, independent curatorial projects, museum education, public lectures, and art criticism.

My background is diverse because I embrace diversity, cross-pollination, and the intersection of different languages and expressions. For me, art has never been a closed space, but an open field to inhabit and grow in—historically, aesthetically, critically, pedagogically, and humanly.

I currently teach Art History and Italian Language and Culture for American study abroad programs in Florence, where I have also designed original courses such as Art and Science and The Nude in Modern Art. In parallel, I have curated contemporary art exhibitions, developed educational activities for Villa La Magia (a UNESCO site), and collaborated with international academic institutions such as the University of New Haven, Marist College, the University of North Carolina, Georgetown, and Tongji University.

I deeply believe in art as dialogue: between eras, cultures, and people. Every lesson, exhibition, text, and project is for me an opportunity to reignite that spark that connects us to time, to others, and to ourselves.