Antonio Bueno

"Art, for me, must make us think. I try to tackle fairly dramatic themes in a playful way with a light-hearted approach.

I would like visitors to my exhibitions to have fun and feel like they are in an amusement park"

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Fabio Giampietro was born in 1974 in Milan where he lives and works. Through his characteristic technique of painting with the subtraction of oil color from the canvas, he expresses a very strong and intense figurative painting. When observing one of Giampietro's works, you feel a dual sensation: that sense of panic felt on an airplane before jumping out and then that sense of freedom when the parachute opens up; it's like that "Why did I get myself into this?" while standing on a cliff in the sea and then that sense of wanting to do it all over again once you dive into the crystal-clear water. His atmospheres bring to mind the dream landscapes from the movie Inception, skyscrapers in Spiderman's New York or Gotham City; and how can one ever forget the photograph symbolizing that tragic 9/11 with the Twin Towers in flames. Giampietro is a highly contemporary artist and describes the present, creating distorted urban environments; we find ourselves hurled into a frightening vor-tex, but at the same time one with a frenetic vitality that is as typical of daily life as it is of agitated dreams.