Paintings by Fabrizio Vatta, a pupil of Emilio Vedova, on display in Milan

From Feb. 23 to March 2023 Agostino Art Gallery in Milan presents the exhibition Hommage à la peinture by Fabrizio Vatta, a Venetian artist and pupil of Emilio Vedova, whose research moves on the border between realism and expressionism, through a vibrant gesture that first constructs and then denies the figure.

Curated by Cinzia Lampariello Ranzi, the exhibition brings a selection of recent oil-on-canvas and panel works, some of which are large in size.

The fulcrum of Fabrizio Vatta’s work is the human figure, portrayed in the act of performing everyday actions or inserted in more complex situations. However, the space represented is never a physical space, but a mental one, which is intended to suggest reflections that go beyond the surface of the painting, flowing into the personal and collective sphere.

Notable among the works on display are The Island of Geremy, a large canvas pervaded by the protagonist’s feeling of hope, and The Shadow Underwater, in which the sense of bewilderment of contemporary man is evident.

Also present in the exhibition is a series of paintings characterized by a view from above, as if the subjects portrayed were being spied on by a drone. Closing the itinerary is a tribute to Andy Warhol, who observes and records the staging of painting.

“The sought-after photographic cuts of the compositions,” writes art critic Gaetano Salerno, “give immediate credibility and drama to these images that nonetheless do not cease to allude to the fantastic and the oneiric; the color forms and deforms, individualizes and erases. In this realizational combination, drawing a trace and then concealing it conveys the multifaceted essence of life: absorbing a real datum, a physical suggestion and then exploding it into matter that exponentially amplifies the basic feeling, cloaking every corner of the visible sphere of its essence with fluid and dynamic chromatic paste, writes the theology of an occult world in the making in which being there, figuring, represented the only antithesis to nihilism.”

For info: www.agostinoartgallery.it

The exhibition is open to the public Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 7:30 p.m.; Saturday from 4 to 7:30 p.m.; Saturday mornings and Sundays by appointment. Free admission.
Opening on Thursday, Feb. 23 at 6 p.m.

Image: Fabrizio Vatta, The Shadow Underwater, detail (2020; oil on canvas, 200 x 150 cm). Photo by Nino Esposto

Paintings by Fabrizio Vatta, a pupil of Emilio Vedova, on display in Milan

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