Andrea Francolino (Bari, 1979) lives and works in Milan. His artistic reflection is concentrated on the crack, for its universality and ‘infinite variants’, without criticism or prejudice. “Looking at a crack is like looking at the universe, I reflect on the meaning of life and the meaning of things", the artist explains. Taking a multidisciplinary approach spanning, aesthetic, ethic and ecology, Francolino tries to honour Nature in his works and has coined the term econcrethic, a combination of the words eco (eco), etico (ethical) and concreto (concrete), to describe his work with natural materials. Andrea is one of the four founders of The Open Box, a non-profit art space inaugurated in 2015 in Milan.