Pietro Fight - "Sfumatura"

Artist: Pietro Fight
Title: "Shading"
Year: 2026
Dimensions: H -> 96 cm / W -> 77 cm (+ 5 cm margin on each side for mounting on a frame)
Technique: drawing and painting done by hand
Materials & support: alcohol-based ink marker & vinyl paint on cotton-mile canvas (unframed)
Provenance: directly from the artist's studio -> Milan
Documentation: Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist with a personalized stamp
Shipping: the work will be shipped rolled in a rigid tube, with careful packaging and tracked shipping
Note: -> This listing contains AI-generated scenography
For information: pietrofight.art@gmail.com

WORK:

07-10-2026

⁌ A multitude of faceless presences, initially light and almost imperceptible, progressively gain weight until they become mass ⁍

At the top of the work the shapes seem to barely surface, suspended, almost held back by light. Going down, however, they become denser, closer and more insistent, to the point of losing any individuality inside a darker and more compact collective presence.
The shading represents not only a transition from white to black, but a transformation: what at first seems fragile and distant takes form, accumulates, and occupies space. Yet ambiguity remains: it is not clear whether these presences are slowly vanishing into darkness, or, on the contrary, are emerging from it.
The work thus remains suspended between appearance and dissolution, lightness and weight, individual and mass.

BIO:

"My artistic journey did not begin in a studio, but behind the bar counter."

My name is Pietro Fight and in 2019, during the quieter moments of bartender work, I began drawing on the small order-notes blocks. Those spontaneous marks, born without a precise plan, gradually transformed into a personal language, developed also during the time spent in Barcelona and then carried onto larger surfaces, up to the canvas.
My research originates from the relationship between control and chance, fullness and emptiness, identity and autonomy. I establish an initial structure, but I let the mark grow through repetitions, overlappings and variations in rhythm.
I mainly work on canvas using India ink, alcohol-based ink markers, acrylic, tempera and vinyl paint.
Today I live and work in Milan, continuing to develop that language born almost by chance on a small order block.