Pietro Fight - "La distanza minima"

Artist: Pietro Fight
Title: "The Minimum Distance"
Year: 2026
Dimensions: H 97 cm / W 97 cm (+ 4.5 cm margin on each side for mounting on frame)
Technique: freehand drawing and painting
Materials & support: vinyl paint on cotton-blend 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
N.B. -> This listing contains AI-generated scenography
For info: pietrofight.art@gmail.com

WORK:

"The Minimum Distance" arises from the idea of two shapes approaching until almost touching: one larger, almost protective, and one smaller. They can recall two territories separated by a river, but also a familial relationship, that between a parent and a child, two near but distinct presences.
Between them flows yellow, which becomes the heart of the work: light, energy and movement. It divides the two shapes, but at the same time unites them, like a current crossing two patches of land.
This yellow also calls to mind the Huang He, the Chinese Yellow River, rich in earth and sediments. It is not clear water, but a dense and living current that drags matter and creates a bond between two worlds.
"The Minimum Distance" tells this very thing: two presences that do not touch, but seek each other. It is in that thin space, between separation and closeness, that the bond is born.

BIO:

"My artistic path did not start in a studio, but behind the bar."
My name is Pietro Fight and in 2019, during the quieter moments of working as a bartender, I began drawing on the small order slips. Those spontaneous marks, born without a precise plan, gradually transformed over time into a personal language, developed also during the period spent in Barcelona and then brought to ever larger surfaces, up to the canvas.
My research arises from the relationship between control and the unforeseen, fullness and emptiness, identity and autonomy. I establish an initial structure, but I let the mark grow through repetitions, overlays and rhythm variations.
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 pad.