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Opening on Thursday, November, 4th, 2004 at 6 P.M.

AGENORE FABBRI

Breakings, tearings, riliefs and other signs of the Informal period

Critical text by Claudio Cerritelli

The exhibition revises an important period of the creative activity of Agenore Fabbri linking to the Informal years and to the rich dimension of that extraordinary artistic season. Contemporary to his early works that witness against the violence, the overpower and the injustice by working on the figures and on the expressive matter of the bodies in a dramatical way, Fabbri creates a cycle of works during the Fifties , which are different from the way of his own figural expressionism, but they keep that same spatial tension which allows to the matter to become the place for a search of inner depths. "in the layer of woods and of its inner tearings - Claudio Cerritelli writes in the catalogue - the artist fixes the breaking points of the surface as a chance to invent some images of the precariousness and of the anxiety. It deals with some allusive prints, some sharp air-holes, fierce and irreducible signs of a mental and physical disease the man of today has to keep in himself against his will, facing the crysis of the individual and collective values". Through some materic results these coloured woods show the relationship which Fabbri intends to have to the European culture of the Fifties, from Fontana to Burri, from Dubuffet to Tapies, just to point out some protagonists in a new way to conceive the art as something living, as an expression of the continuous changings which give sense to the existence.

AGENORE FABBRI was born in Barba, near Pistoia, Tuscany in 1911 and he died in Savona, Liguria in 1998

The exhibition will last until February, 4th 2005.

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