Artist: Pietro Fachini
Exhibition title: Racconti dalle terre piumate (Tales from the feathered lands)
Venue: ArtNoble Gallery, Milan, Italy
Date: February 8 – March 21, 2024
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and ArtNoble Gallery, Milan
Note: Text by Arnold Braho is available here. Exhibition catalogue is available here
ArtNoble Gallery is pleased to present Racconti dalle terre piumate (Tales from the feathered lands), a solo exhibition by Pietro Fachini (1994) curated by Arnold Braho.
The exhibition Racconti dalle terre piumate takes on fable features right from its title, presen-ting itself as a cosmogony of tales that compose the visual imagery of a land where cork forests, small insects and polychrome feathers are the subjects that constitute the on-going forces of a wild dimension.
The attempt of the exhibition is to make use of this narrative device to once again narrate a natural subject, continually subjected to its own dispossession, a living organism composed of micro-stories, traces, memories and records in constant mutation.
Pietro Fachini’s painting practice is conceived as a research tool, characterized by a scientific meticulousness that is realized through the presentation of natural element in transformation, through representational modes that have an organic attitude. From the investigation of pigment, always open to learning new ways of producing colour, to the search for the living subject to represent, Pietro Fachini finds himself working not so much in nature, but with nature.
Fachini focuses his attention on spontaneous manifestations through meditative processes and pictorial stratifications, developing a reflection on figuration and its limitations. The transformation is then reflected in the artist’s painting practice: while on the one hand the attempt is to be as realistic as possible through painting on panel, but with an abstraction of its content, on the other hand the effort is to instead abstract the image through the search for a primitivism that maintains its recognizability through the use of the monotype.
Memory, conceived as an operation of the imagination, brings to light the possibilities of a wild world made up of apparitions, allegories with magical features, and ferocity. Gra-dually every fact lends itself to interpretation and resolution in terms of metamorphosis and enchantment. Everything becomes possible again, the logic that governs the world is lost: feathers adorn the forest. Someone used to say that fairy tales are true.
Born in 1994 in Milan (MI), Italy. Lives and works between Milan, Sardinia and Leticia, Colombia.
Pietro Fachini (1994) is an Italian artist who approached painting in 2017 by attending the atelier of master Maurizio Bottoni, thus approaching Flemish and metaphysical art. Simultaneously, he encountered professor Marco Fantuzzi in Urbino in order to approach the processing of pigments and raw materials from which to derive colours for painting. From this encounter Fachini underlines the importance of the relationship with the ma-terial and the search in other continents and cultures of man’s relationship with colour.
Currently Fachini carries out studies on colouring earths in Sardinia and on organic pigments in the Colombian Amazon rainforest and in Mexico. In Latin America he studies, with the help of local people, how to stabilize organic dyes to derive pigments, and pictorial media starting from traditional indigenous techniques, such as canvases made from the fibre of particular trees in the Amazon jungle. In collaboration with ArtNoble gallery Pietro Fachini presents to the public for the first time his artistic practice with the exhibition Racconti dalle terre piumate, curated by Arnold Braho.
Pietro Fachini, Racconti dalle terre piumate (Tales from the feathered lands), 2024, exhibition view, ArtNoble Gallery, Milan
Pietro Fachini, Costanza nel disequilibrio (2023) Oil and pigment on lined board 25 x 20 cm, framed, Private collection
Pietro Fachini, Sughera (2024), Oil and pigment on lined board 36 x 46.5 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Racconti dalle terre piumate (Tales from the feathered lands), 2024, exhibition view, ArtNoble Gallery, Milan
Pietro Fachini, Racconti dalle terre piumate (Tales from the feathered lands), 2024, exhibition view, ArtNoble Gallery, Milan
Pietro Fachini, Sughera (2024), Oil and pigment on lined board 46 x 36.6 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Mantide (Predatrice di calma), (2024), Oil and pigment on lined board 26 x 21 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Racconti dalle terre piumate (Tales from the feathered lands), 2024, exhibition view, ArtNoble Gallery, Milan
Pietro Fachini, Sughera (Studio meditativo), (2024), Oil and pigment on lined board 26 x 21 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Sughera (All’imbrunire), (2024), Oil and pigment on lined board 46 x 36.6 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Grande sughera, (2024), Oil and pigment on lined board 71 x 57 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Piuma, (2024), Oil and pigment on lined board 51.5 x 37 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Racconti dalle terre piumate (Tales from the feathered lands), 2024, exhibition view, ArtNoble Gallery, Milan
Pietro Fachini, Leticia, (2024), Natural dyes from the amazon rainforest on paper 70 x 86 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Racconti dalle terre piumate (Tales from the feathered lands), 2024, exhibition view, ArtNoble Gallery, Milan
Pietro Fachini, Fagiano, (2024), Pigmento Terra verde su carta 74 x 104 cm, incorniciato
Pietro Fachini, Asino bianco, (2024), Pigmento Terra verde su carta 104 x 74 cm, incorniciato
Pietro Fachini, Racconti dalle terre piumate (Tales from the feathered lands), 2024, exhibition view, ArtNoble Gallery, Milan
Pietro Fachini, Racconti dalle terre piumate (Tales from the feathered lands), 2024, exhibition view, ArtNoble Gallery, Milan
Pietro Fachini, Racconti dalle terre piumate (Tales from the feathered lands), 2024, exhibition view, ArtNoble Gallery, Milan
Pietro Fachini, Pastore delle nuvole (Monotipo 1), (2024), Red earth pigment, green earth pigment, black carbon on paper 44 x 33 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Pastore delle nuvole (Monotipo 2), (2024), Red earth pigment, green earth pigment, black carbon on paper 44 x 33 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Pastore delle nuvole (Monotipo 3), (2024), Red earth pigment, green earth pigment, black carbon on paper 44 x 33 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Pastore delle nuvole (Monotipo 4), (2024), Red earth pigment, green earth pigment, black carbon on paper 44 x 33 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Pastore delle nuvole (Monotipo 5), (2024), Red earth pigment, green earth pigment, black carbon on paper 44 x 33 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Pastore delle nuvole (Monotipo 6), (2024), Red earth pigment, green earth pigment, black carbon on paper 44 x 33 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Pastore delle nuvole (Monotipo 7), (2024), Red earth pigment, green earth pigment, black carbon on paper 44 x 33 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Pastore delle nuvole (Monotipo 8), (2024), Red earth pigment, green earth pigment, black carbon on paper 44 x 33 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Pastore delle nuvole (Monotipo 9), (2024), Red earth pigment, green earth pigment, black carbon on paper 44 x 33 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Pastore delle nuvole (Monotipo 10), (2024), Red earth pigment, green earth pigment, black carbon on paper 44 x 33 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Pastore delle nuvole (Monotipo 11), (2024), Red earth pigment, green earth pigment, black carbon on paper 44 x 33 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Racconti dalle terre piumate (Tales from the feathered lands), 2024, exhibition view, ArtNoble Gallery, Milan
Pietro Fachini, La crepa, (2022), Oil on lined board 30 x 30 cm, framed
Pietro Fachini, Racconti dalle terre piumate (Tales from the feathered lands), 2024, exhibition view, ArtNoble Gallery, Milan
Pietro Fachini, Franklin, (2024), Oil on lined board 20.5 x 32 cm, framed