Fabio La Fauci

"Fabio La Fauci’s work, often inspired by Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, and oscillating between abstract atmosphere and organic reality, escapes all attempts at artistic classification. His works’ intrinsic plastic ambiguity enables a transformation, the passage from one form to another form and from one meaning to another meaning. This process derives from the artist’s subconscious, from his most hidden fears and emotions and art becomes, in this perspective, a sort of catharsis."

-E. Battiston

The new body of work by Fabio La Fauci deals with the subject of portraits, expanding it through an aesthetic research that is both recognisable and imaginary. e gurative language and the abstract language converse to paint the person and sculpt his personality. The elongated neck becomes the platform for the head, betraying curiosity and a certain need for recognition. e head is instead a mask, a mysti cation of reality.

In this sense, given the levity in the consumption of contemporary images and the di cult reading of recognisable faces’ intentions, abstraction plays the role of interpreting reality and creating an additional level of complexity. The painting is still a person, a person like the others with a sense of disorientation. A person without an answer or a clear question. is is “Is it you?”

Ceramics, an unconventional material for portraits in painting, and acrylic gel emerge from oil to continue the movement and the tensions. e juxtaposition of colours and materials are the result and the origin of Fabio’s aesthetic research that is, at the same time, demand and pleasure, dynamism and balance.

-S. Matalucci

BORN IN MILAN IN 1977. WORKS AND LIVES IN BERLIN

2018

Is it you? Janine Bean Gallery, Berlin

Panta Rei, Galleria Mario Giusti HQ, Milano

2017

New works, Ransom Art London 8 Floating figures, Ransom Art London

2016

Alphabet, Galleria Ghizzoni, Milano

Serendipity, Giuseppe Veniero Project,

Palermo Present Perfect, Brodac Gallery, Sarajevo

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2018

Fantasia, Spoke Art, San Francisco

Me, Myself & I, Artdocks, Bremen

Preparing for darkness, kuhlhaus, Berlin

Strange matter, Janine Bean Gallery, Berlin

Natura Viva, Federico Rui arte contemporanea, Milano

2017
Icons, Galleria Mario Giusti hq, Milano

2016
A studio, Troilo studio, Milan

Binario 18, Palazzo Barolo, Torino

The Great Leap, Rothamel Gallery, Erfurt