Here is a selection of Fabio Petani‘s latest street pieces painted around Italy during the course of the last months that focus on the experimental transformation of shapes and surfaces that make up the urban landscape, from which he draws his inspiration from.
Fabio Petani’s work represents a refined balance between organic forms, geometry and lettering, adding patches of ruddy colour into a disordered harmony that favourises symbolism and abstraction.
He creates murals and paintings that bear the names of natural elements such as chromium, platinum, americium and so on. Nothing seems to be random in Fabio Petani’s work. there is always some kind of connection between the depicted elements in his paintings and the composition, incorporating the numbers of the elements and even the colours when they apply.
Fabio Petani was born in Pinerolo in 1987. Throughout his rich artistic career, he has experimented, not only on the numerous commissioned murals, even on paper, canvas and alternative media. In this exhibition, some works on wood will be shown to the public for the first time, a material that enhances the subtle yet strong relationship between abstraction, nature, and chemistry that make him easily recognisable.
Still curious? have a look at Fabio Petani’s website www.illusionlab.it
Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
