fabio imperiale - Centanni

Opera of 2026 made with coffee and tar on an old 1926 letter envelope, containing an old letter, inserted in a frame measuring 25x25x6 cm, with a hand-painted background.
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(The work is part of the series LETTERS OF POETY, which takes its name and inspiration from the homonymous collection of 52 poems by Emily Dickinson. The American poetess used to jot down verses on fragments of paper of various kinds, including especially letter envelopes, where the words dialogue with the irregularity of the support: they lengthen, thicken, sometimes curl or stop as if facing a interrupted road.
In this series of works, painting blends with the envelope, reducing the separation between painting and support. The void, understood as an 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 reflect on how much emotional charge can be contained in such a fragile object, 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, self-taught. In the early years I experimented with several 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 support for my works: letter envelopes, 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 exhibit in solo and group shows 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 was hosted in a different house in every region of Italy, creating a painting in each 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 started working on “Il Caffè,” a project in progress that envisions 100 interview-meetings with 100 different women in 100 bars-cafés in Rome and surroundings, to highlight the value of meeting, listening and living consciously every moment. Each of these meetings gives rise to a full portrait of the interviewed woman, made of painting, words and video.