Measurement:

Variable Dimensions

 

Permanent collection

Untitled 2005 Ave Ovo 2005 Untitled 2005 Untitled 2005 Wild Boy and Puppy 1988 Dark brother 2005 Untitled 2005 Untitled 2005 Spirits 2005 1995 - 2005 Giuditta ed Oloferne 2005 Line of Chance 2005 10,000 Lines 2005 Untitled 2006 Horse 2006

Luciano Fabro

Il Cielo di San Gennaro

2005

 

 

 

 

A leading exponent of Arte Povera Fabro has always been interested in experimenting with new iconographic styles and materials with the aim of stimulating the public towards new perceptive involvements with space, with particular attention to artisan techniques such as, for example, when, between 1963 and 1965, Fabro produced some works in partly mirrored and partly transparent glass and others in light tubular metal which emphasise forms and materials as simple luminous and dynamic vehicles. Such everyday actions as measuring the diameter of a piece of material with a hole in it, or cleaning a floor and the successive covering of it with newspapers become works of art followed by a certificate of authentication. Then he sculpted the striking series I Piedi (The Feet) which he proposed in various forms using artisan techniques for working marble, bronze and fabrics. Towards the end of the Nineties the first theories and exhibitions on the concept of the image in its original state led to the production of public works with an civil, urban, natural and religious iconography. His assiduous reflection on forms continues in the work conceived for the MADRE for which the artist has also produced a text, on exhibition in the room as a manifesto, which the public can use to interpret the work, without it being intended as a caption, but as yet another perceptive stimulus.