fabio imperiale - ti ricordi, Lea?

“Do you remember, Lea?”
Artwork made with coffee and tar on an old letter, with inserts and tears, applied on panel, mounted in a frame measuring 21.5x33x3.5 cm.

This is a handcrafted frame made by me mainly for protection, easily removable if you want to take the work to a professional frame maker.

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The item can also be picked up at my studio in ROME.
In Rome and the surrounding areas I can deliver by hand, personally.
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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 turned to 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 participate 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 project of home-made residencies in which I stayed in a different house in each region of Italy, creating a painting in every residence. All produced material was later 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/cafés in Rome and surrounding areas, to draw attention to the value of encounters, listening, and living each moment consciously. Each of these meetings gives rise to a full portrait of the interviewed woman, made of painting, words, and video.