François Xavier Saint Pierre
François Xavier Saint Pierre is a Canadian painter based in Venice. He has been an artist in residence in the UK, in Sweden, and at the French Academy in Rome. A mid-career survey of his work was presented in Toronto (2021-22), in Venice (2022), and in Rome (2023) at Palazzo Borghese.
Passing through a stone doorway, my eyes meet the unblinking stare of a large Afghan hound. It is one of many Roman and Etruscan sculptures collected by Cy Twombly that sparsely populate the bright, spacious rooms of a seventeenth-century palazzo in Bassano in Teverina, an hour’s drive north of Rome.
