Fabio Bianco was born in Mirano in 1971. His pictorial language, full of color and light, finds a dimension in the theatrical scenarios and in the private interiors of aristocratic palaces and luxuriant environments. Excess and fantasy coexist together in a riot of colors.
The artist defines saturated and blurred colour fields, playing with the perception of depth. He refers to glamorous, sumptuous and exuberant interiors. In a reinterpretation of classical culture elements, he leads viewers into the luxury excesses of a captivating world.
His work mixes invention and reality, lived and dreamed experiences, skillfully composed in a series of decipherable and barely distinguishable elements, characterized by a personal chromatic contrast full of expressive power. After a first phase of fictitious transfiguration of public and private spaces and a research into colours, light and architecture is manifested in elegant building and theater interiors with the recurring motif of ancient chandeliers. These have become iconic in the artist’s production and they create an atmosphere of regal pomposity.
His work mixes invention and reality, lived and dreamed experiences, skillfully composed in a series of decipherable and barely distinguishable elements, characterized by a personal chromatic contrast full of expressive power. After a first phase of fictitious transfiguration of public and private spaces and a research into colours, light and architecture is manifested in elegant building and theater interiors with the recurring motif of ancient chandeliers. These have become iconic in the artist’s production and they create an atmosphere of regal pomposity.
Complementary and contrasting colors – red, magenta, orange, blue and green – juxtapose to create a state of imaginative tension and chaos. The spectator is invited to enter an imagined space of freedom. A freedom that inevitably comes with a price and responsibilities. If on the one hand, the artist’s works appear to be inside a world made of futile enchantment, on the other hand, this emptiness involves social criticism. An art not only decorative, but also of social criticism against the excesses of contemporary culture.
Fabio Bianco graduated in 1995 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice where he deepened his research on the outcomes of reflective light in interior spaces, with attention to architectural elements. He later studied at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. In Fabio Bianco’s works, color has always been the protagonist, like in his cycles dedicated to interiors and theaters, the Flash and the Aboriginal Light series and also in the Red Point and Jungle ones.
The site specific installation “Business +” was memorable; it was presented in 2012 at Documenta, the prestigious contemporary art exhibition in Kassel, Germany. Here, during the event, he painted the world stock exchanges indices on cabanas placed on the street. This was his personal response to the global economic crisis.
