fabio imperiale - Centanni

Opera of 2026 created with coffee and bitumen on an old letter envelope (1926), 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 BUSTE DI POESIA series, which takes its name and inspiration from the eponymous collection of 52 poems by Emily Dickinson. The American poet would indeed write verses on fragments of paper of various kinds, including especially envelopes, in which the words dialogue with the irregularity of the support: they lengthen, thicken, sometimes curve or stop as if facing a road that has come to a halt.
In this series of my works, painting fuses with the envelope, reducing the separation between painting and support. The void, understood as an unpainted area, becomes itself a message, seeking its strength in the uniqueness of the object and aiming to urge the observer to cast their attention on every small detail and to reflect on how much emotional charge can be contained in such a fragile object, surviving the passage of time, bearing its scars.)

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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 artistic research, even though 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 being the exclusive protagonist of my painting.
For many years I have collaborated with numerous galleries, exhibited in solo and group shows and regularly participated in art fairs.
Since 2014 I have had a painting studio in Rome, in Trastevere.
In 2021, following the covid period, I conceived Marginalia, a home-made residency project in which I was hosted in a different house in each region of Italy, creating a painting in every residence. All the material produced was then 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 envisions 100 interview-meetings with 100 different women in 100 bars and cafés in Rome and surrounding areas, to focus on the value of encounter, listening, and living consciously in every moment. Each of these meetings gives rise to a full portrait of the woman interviewed, made of painting, words and video.