Presentation during the Vernissage at ENO in Bruxelles 2019

by Maria Arcidiacono, archaeologist, scholar of historical art and curator

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"From the unusual set-up it is possible to appreciate the consistency and rigor of Fabrizio Stenti's research.

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The randomness in finding the material, meticuosly recomposed in paper inlay, is combined with the deliberate exibhition imprecision where the works resume their interrupted course of decay.

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The compositional balance is characterized by constant elements: the presence of a number (wich is also the title of the work).

a vertical tension in evidence and a protagonist detail, sometimes accompained by a significant hidden detail.

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An accurate practice, born from the professional experience of an architect, through which the artist challenges the widespread and introjected homologation, wich on the hand imposes a waste from overproduction and on the other requires unattainable models of perfection.

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Fabrizio Stenti thus expresses the force of a deeply critical sentiment towards an oppressive conformism, summing it up, by contrast, with the use of carefully cataloged and delicately assembled waste materials."

 

Translation edited by Andrea Sossi

 

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