fabio imperiale - il verde

Opera of 2026 realized with coffee and asphalt on an old letter envelope, containing an old letter and an illustrated postcard, set in a 25x25x6 cm frame, 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 homonymous collection of 52 poems by Emily Dickinson. The American poetess often used to note verses on fragments of various papers, including especially envelopes, where words dialog 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 emptiness, understood as unpainted area, becomes itself a message, seeking its strength in the uniqueness of the object and aiming to push the viewer to focus on every small detail and to reflect on how much emotional charge can be contained in such a fragile object, that has 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 different techniques and themes. The female figure has always been present in my painting research, although 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: 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, exhibited 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 project of home-made residencies in which I stayed in a different house in each region of Italy, creating a painting in each residence. All the produced material 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 plans 100 interview-meetings with 100 different women in 100 bars/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.