fabio imperiale - la montagna bianca

Opera of 2026 realized with coffee and bitumen on an old letter envelope, containing an old letter and an illustrated postcard, inserted in a frame measuring 27x27x6 cm, with a hand-painted background.
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(The work is part of the BUSTE DI POESIA series, which takes its name and inspiration from the eponymous collection of 52 poems by Emily Dickinson. The American poetess was in fact accustomed to jot verses on fragments of paper of various kinds, including especially envelopes, in which the words dialogue with the irregularity of the support: they elongate, thicken, sometimes curve or stop as if facing a interrupted road. In this series of works, painting merges with the envelope, reducing the separation between painting and support. The void, understood as unpainted area, becomes itself a message, 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 marks.)

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BRIEF BIO
I have always drawn, since I was a child. I approached painting in 2004, as a self-t taught artist. 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 crowds or individuals.
In 2015 I approached old postal material as a support for my works: envelopes, postcards, maps, letters and manuscripts, and the woman returned to be the exclusive protagonist of my painting.
For many years I have been collaborating 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, after the Covid period, I conceived Marginalia, a project of homemade residencies in which I was hosted in a different house in each region of Italy, creating a painting at each residence. All produced material was then displayed 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 envisions 100 interview-meetings with 100 different women in 100 bars and cafés in Rome and surroundings, to draw attention to the value of encounter, listening and living every moment consciously. Each of these meetings gives rise to a full portrait of the interviewed woman, made of painting, words and video."