Pietro Fachini

To make Fare in Pieces, the artist asked a few friends which insect they felt most like, and then tracked down each of these tiny creatures and reproduced them live on a 1:1 scale, according to an instinctive and mysterious composition, not reasoned a priori. The work thus speaks to us of the contrast between individual individualities and an overpowering social order, blindly devoted to progress and productivity and embodied in the painting by the “river of ants” that carelessly carries bees, dragonflies, butterflies, cerambici and the most varied insects. After intense study-trips to the Colombian Amazon and the cork forests of Sardinia, where he was able to experiment with new techniques and painting patterns, Fachini seems to have returned to more figurative painting, inspired by the Flemish school and Piero della Francesca. However, this is only an apparent return, a screwing around of the origin, since the artist's technique is now embellished with a broader sensibility, by a deconstructed humanism: no hierarchy between figure and background, no point that shines on the others, but an imaginative ecosystem eternalized on the canvas, a “visual meditation” that tells a lot about the human, even if apparently nothing resembles it.

Giulia Oglialoro