FABRIZIO RUGGIERO

- INFINITY-

One of the great lessons of the crisis:

we cannot escape the uncertainty:

We will remain in the uncertainty of the human adventure.

Edgar Morin

Fabrizio Ruggiero’s pictorial research unfolds around the concepts of infinity and eternity, understood not as theoretical abstractions but as inner and perceptual experiences.

To explore the artist's work, click on an image below.

 

Infinity blue dots

Fresco and pigments on wooden panel
cm 150 x 150 x 5
2021

Rooted in a philosophical reflection on time, existence, and the limits of human knowledge, his practice investigates the “beyond”: that which eludes measure, linearity, and finitude.

Infinity_dots_1

Fresco and pigments on wooden panel
cm 150 x 150 x 5
2021

In the recent INFINITY cycle, painting becomes a cosmic space and a field of meditation, where boundaries dissolve and the viewer’s gaze is called into a continuous shift of perspective

Infinity_5

Fresco and pigments on wooden panel
cm 150 x 150 x 5
2021

The pictorial gesture acts as a threshold, a passage toward a timeless dimension in which the infinite and the eternal emerge as tangible presences, capable of resonating deeply within the viewer.

Infinity_1

Fresco and pigments on wooden panel
cm 150 x 150 x 5
2021

In this process, the canvas is transformed into a site of contemplation and openness—an invitation to engage with the mystery of existence and the vertigo of that which has no end.

 

Infinity_2

Fresco and pigments on wooden panel
cm 100 x 140 x 6
2021

INFINITY fresco paintings aim to be instrument to bring the mind of the observer focused in the present, which is, by definition in the present, here-and-now. Eternal!

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Infinity_3

Fresco and pigments on wooden panel
cm 100 x 140 x 6
2021

In the paintings of the INFINITY cycle, Fabrizio Ruggiero uses thick layers of white Carrara and black ebony marble to throw light on the spatial complexity of these pictures. A feature that is initially masked by the paintings apparently accurate transcription of an observed reality. The function of this visual play is to challenge vision, his role in producing empirical knowledge to underscore the underlying complexity of these paintings through their ability to destabilize the seemingly straightforward transcription of real space.

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MONOCHROME & ANICONIC FRESCO PAINTINGS
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A Carmine to circulate the blood happily Lime mortar, pigments on curved and shaped panel cm 185 x 185 x 5 2008

A Carmine to circulate the blood happily
Lime mortar, pigments on curved and shaped panel
cm 185 x 185 x 5
2008

 
Fabrizio Ruggiero offers an insight into the practice of fresco painting in Contemporary Art through a series of "MONOCROMI"
 

A Green Moss to calm the restlessness
Lime mortar, pigments on curved and shaped panel
cm 105 x 105 x 4
2012

A pure White, purity
Lime mortar, pigments on curved and shaped panel
cm 185 x 185 x 5
2017

The very act of painting has a peculiar significance in monochrome. The themes of narrative and representation are removed, the focus is shifted to the real elements of painting, the support and its shape, tint and the way of building it up  by  the relationship of contiguity to the support.

Grids and Mono
Lime mortar, pigments on curved and shaped panel
Four panels each: cm 155 x 100 x 5
2015

Triple Monochrome
Lime mortar, pigments on curved and shaped panel
three panels each cm 90 x 210 x 5
2018

The absence of figures, history and narrative in monochrome paintings is intended to provoke the mind of the observer at first to generate What-you-see, then for wandering into a territory that poet Giacomo Leopardi defined as the place where “ the soul imagines what it has not seen "and, after wandering at will, the soul  accepts the invitation of the monochrome and takes rest in the here and now of the unknown that surrounds it.

Cobalt Blue Fragment
Lime mortar, pigments on canniccio
cm 80 x 110
2013

 

 

Siena Fragment
Lime mortar, pigments on canniccio 
cm 80 x 110
2013        

The retina communicates with the brain and "talks" to the mind of the beholder, the flow is in two directions; in this way, it restarts from where it came, back to where it started and going back brings along other images that  were not there previously.

" The transformative Power of Art" Exhibition, United Nations Headquarters, New York. June 2015

Awareness through the sense of sight is different from the word that describes it as well as can be distinct the appearances that reality assume, however, their substance is the same. In a famous Chinese tale, Chuang-tzu dreamed of being a butterfly, but who says that is not the butterfly dreaming Chuang-tzu?

    The description is not the described ,
    the word is not the thing it designates.

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Structure and Form
- Analytical Fresco Paintings-

Bhogakkhandha data stream

Fresco on curved and shaped wooden panel
Two panels each: cm 85 x 125 x 3

Tuplet

Fresco on curved and shaped wooden panel
Two panels each: cm 75 x 150 x 3


Crossroads of strips and squares

Lime mortar and pigments on
wooden panel
cm 150 x 150 x 3

Sukha-vipaka data stream

Fresco on curved and shaped wooden panel
Two panels each:
cm 155 x 155 x 15

Quietly walking through Nigredo

Fresco and pigments on curved wooden panel
cm 155 x 210 x 15
--1996-

Approaching Storm

Fresco and pigments on curved wooden panel
cm 155 x 210 x 15.
1996

Shere Khan

Fresco with lime plaster and natural pigments
on wooden curved panel.
Cm. 114 x 152  =  45 x 60 inches

Shah-un-Dhan

Fresco with lime plaster and natural pigments
on wooden curved panel.
Cm. 114 x 152  =  45 x 60 inches


Mental landscape reflex

Fresco on curved and shaped wooden panel.
cm. 90x120


Mental landscape

Fresco on curved and shaped wooden panel.
cm. 90x120.

Reflecting on a shining expanse of water

Fresco on wooden panel.
cm. 90x120.

 

Approaching Twilight

Fresco on wooden panel.
cm. 90x120.

Possible

Fresco on canvas
cm 210 x 130
1992

 

Gravitational Magnet

Fresco on wooden panel.
Cm. 76x100

Rhapsody in blue-first movement

Fresco on wooden panel
cm 150 x 150 x 5
2012

Rhapsody in blue-second movement

Fresco on wooden panel
cm 150 x 150 x 5
2012

Texture
Fresco on canvas
cm. 118 x 198.

My_Blaue-Reiter
Fresco on wooden panel.
cm. 165 x 220
2018

 

Mycenae-wave
Fresco on wooden panel
cm 80 x 110 x 3
2013


Feeling sensations raising and passing away
Fresco on curved and shaped wooden panel.
cm. 90x120.

Flock of Mental Birds
Canvas
cm 80 x 110 x 3
2013

My Deep Sea Aquarium
Canvas
cm. 100x70

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“Family Resemblances” MONOTYPES

A monotype is a print, but with one major difference from other printmaking processes:
the artist creates exactly one print, instead of multiples (called editions).
This is due to the way a monotype is made.

 

Ax_1

Arches paper cm 76x56

Ax_2

Arches paper cm 76x56

Ax_4

Arches paper cm 76x56

Ax_3

Arches paper cm 76x56

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Four coloured fragments, double-face

T r a d i t i o n -M o v i n g -A h e a d

A project for Museo Bardini Florence 2015