FABIAN ALBERTINI
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FABIAN ALBERTINI
Reggio Emilia, ITALY
BIOGRAPHY
Fabian Albertini is an Italian artist based between Reggio Emilia and Rio de Janeiro. Albertini is guided by her interests in perception, movement, the relationship between man and environment through dialogues between art and spirituality. Combining photography, installation and overpainted photographs, her projects often show fieldwork in remote locations - such as deserts, volcanos and rainforest. Albertini was educated at the prestigious Instituto Italiano di Fotografia in Milan. She has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Molin Corvo in Paris as well as at Galerie Palü in Zurich.
“ It all started when I began to travel through the deserts, the immensity, the infinity, the contact with nature, with the beginnings, led me to a deeper contact with myself ”.
Influenece
Richard Serra
B. 1938, SAN FRANCISCORichard Serra, the son of an artist and a factory worker supported himself by working in steel factories. In 1964 he received an M.F.A. from Yale University, working under Josef Albers. Prestigious fellowships allowed him to spend the next two years working in Europe.
Serra returned to the United States and became part of a circle of West Coast abstract artists including Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, and Keith Sonnier, whose aim was to expand the perception and potential of various media.
Serra hoped to redefine the relationship between art and the viewer by creating space that is "discerned physically rather than optically." Although large-scale, site-specific sculptural installations in interior, exterior, and landscape settings remain his primary interest, Serra has also examined related themes in drawing, film and video, and printmaking, exploiting the specific processes and possibilities unique to each medium. Serra is considered among the best artists of his generation.
-National Gallery of Art
“ The size of the works are fundamental, some to express themselves must be immense, others very small and intimate. When I decide to create something, I immediately see the measure, I love doing site specific works, where based on the environment I create volume and a dialogue with the space ”.
The Interview.
How does your environment of Italy & Brazil influence your work and how you perceive yourself as an artist?
They are two very different nations, even if they have Latin similarities. Italy has given me rigor, artistic culture, bases, my roots, Brazil has given me wings, freedom of expression, breaking the rules, always changing, contact with the spiritual part of myself.
You have had solo exhibitions in Paris and Zurich recently, could you tell us about the works in these gallery shows?
In Paris I exhibited my series "Seguindo uma linha", photos and installations inspired by the deserts of Namibia and Brazil started in 2012 exploring the transition between conscious and unconscious. In Zurich I presented X one of my latest series, X is an investigation between the complex relationship between the human being and nature. This series is set in the Amazon Forest.
What attracted you to General Public and the Synograph?
What attracted me to general public is the concept of democratizing art, making sure that more people can take advantage of interesting art, I find it brilliant and innovative, using new technologies allows a wider audience to have excellent art and admire it at home, not just in museums. Before it was impossible either you belonged to a very narrow niche of collectors or you bought posters. GP has made it possible to open this space and make it possible to create a new segment of collecting art.
In her early work, fabian albertini explored the complex of consciousness creating performances interpreted by contemporary dancers inside environments, publishing five books on this theme.
“ I need to create art to breathe, to live, to express myself, to get out of an obvious reality ”.
“ The value of art is fundamental, to open minds, to show us what we cannot see, to help us get to know each other better, to open up horizons and make us wake up again and not to live like robot ”.
