Luciano Fabro

Italia all’asta
(Italy on Auction), 1994

 

Paolo Uccello 1450-1989, 1989


Croce (Cross), 1965-86

Attaccapanni (di Napoli)
(Clothes Rack - of Naples), 1976-77

Speculum Italiae (Italy’s Mirror), 1971

Since the beginning of his career Luciano Fabbro, born in Turin in 1936, has shown a specific interest in space as a communicative dimension, an interlaced context of relationships between external and internalized realities.

His first works were glass structures playing with different transparencies and reflections and pieces consisting of iron tubing, which explored the environment by mediating how it is perceived.

His interest in space subsequently pushed him to involve the spectator physically in a type of sensorial adventure. His work produces "tautology," pure observation rather than experience, as in Spatial Concept of 1967, in which a portion of the floor was covered by newspapers.