fabio imperiale - su questo splendido mare

Opera of 2026 made with coffee and asphalt on an old envelope, containing an old letter, inserted in a frame measuring 27x27x6 cm, with a hand-painted background.
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(The work is part of the series BUSTE DI POESIA, which takes its name and inspiration from the eponymous collection of 52 poems by Emily Dickinson. The American poetess used to jot verses on fragments of various kinds of paper, including especially envelopes, where the words dialogue with the irregularity of the support: they lengthen, thicken, sometimes curve, or stop as if facing a broken road.
In this series of works, painting blends with the envelope, reducing the separation between painting and support. The void, understood as unpainted area, becomes the message itself, which seeks its strength in the uniqueness of the object and aims to push the observer to focus on every small detail and to reflect on how much emotional charge can be contained in such a fragile object, having survived the passage of time, bearing its signs.)

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BRIEF BIO
I have always drawn, since I was a child. I approached painting in 2004, self-taught. In the early years I experimented with different techniques and themes. The female figure has always been present in my painting research, even if over the years I worked on other series of works, especially urban landscapes and scenes of anonymous crowds or individuals.
In 2015 I approached old postal material as a support for my works: letters, postcards, maps, letters and manuscripts and the woman returned to be the exclusive protagonist of my painting.
For many years I have collaborated with numerous galleries, I have held solo and group exhibitions and regularly participate in art fairs.
Since 2014 I have a painting studio in Rome, in Trastevere.
In 2021, following the Covid period, I conceived Marginalia, a home-made residency project in which I stayed in a different house in each region of Italy, creating a painting in each residence. All produced material was later exhibited in Milan in November 2023 in a large solo show at the Fondazione Matalon.
At the beginning of 2025 I began working on “Il Caffè”, a project in progress that foresees 100 interview-meetings with 100 different women in 100 bars and cafés in Rome and surroundings, to draw attention to the value of meeting, listening and living each moment consciously. Each of these meetings gives rise to a full portrait of the interviewee, made of painting, words and video.