NEW REPRESENTATION – FABIO RIAUDO

Art engraver and musician, Fabio Riaudo (Torino, 1990) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Turin in graphics tecnique and then at the prestigious Bisonte School of Graphics of Firenze, where he became assistant.

His practice has a very strong and personal gestural component, the meticulousness in creating the matrices, different in technique and timing each time, leaves room for instinct in tracing the sign. He creates new worlds, urban places born from the imagination, like architectures that subvert the traditional perception of space and time. Landscapes that are often silent and deserted, or rather uninhabited. The human component of his creations is important for the artist: these now abandoned worlds were once lived in by men, and their passage is witnessed by elements such as fallen stairs, windows, pylons, abandoned towers, or in the more abstract works simply by the progression of the lines and their proximity. His very act of partial reconstruction of these city skeletons and the mark he leaves with his gesture are testimony to his passage. Through these worlds the artist wants to make us reflect on the contradictions of contemporary society; on human relationships and their instability, on society understood as a network of relationships, which is also, consequently, characterized by the same instability as the remaining constructions, accentuating with its intervention fragility and uncertainty, precarious situations which inevitably evoke in us a sense of loneliness. These remaining architectures also have a positive role in history: they have remained with man as elements of connection, connection, in memory of the bonds which, despite everything, survive the passage of time.

“Urban spaces spring from my mind like architectures subverting the traditional perception of space, dark environs in which I find my inner self. Instintive, gestural lines trace the skeleton of a deserted city, its constituent components bearing witness to the passage of a human presence, of society understood as a network of relations characterized by the same instability and fragility of the buildings and structures that remain. However, within these melancholy, introspective visions immersed in thick black ink, elements of the connective tissue still survive in stairways, windows and trellises, reminders of bonds that, despite everything, resist the passage of time”.