Biography
Fabrizio Pariboni is a painter and digital graphic designer. After being awarded his degree in Film Studies, he had initially devoted himself to computer graphics and then to painting on photography. The pictures on which he has worked, often coming from his family photo albums, are the substrate to which paint is applied so as to transform a pre-existent reality, thus making it topical in the light of the artist’s perception of the moment. The same path is characteristic of the subsequent works on canvas. In technical terms, an evident dichotomy between fulls and voids is to be pointed out. The formers constitute the crystal-image (G. Deleuze), generally placed at the core of the space, which expresses the memory giving rise to the artistic need. From this more pondered creative phase another one arises, more instinctive and rapid, in the course of which the other images take shape. These (the voids) are like splinters severed from the crystal, memories that are less definite but at the same time connected with the main remembrance; they are consistent with one another, although not necessarily in accordance with a rational logic, but by virtue of purely unconscious automatisms. There is no hierarchy underlying the two levels of the work (the crystal-image and the splinters). The more limpid memory does not have to be the most important one, but it is undoubtedly the most vivid in the perception of the artist, who visually emphasizes it through a more realistic depiction and more imposing dimensions. By contrast, the memories brought about by the fundamental reminiscence are conveyed in more elementary, almost infantile forms, which lends a surreal aura to the whole. Anyway, an undeniable continuity of themes and sensitivity counterbalances the change of technique and support base: the centre is still the human being, grasped in its complexity and many facets, perennially looking for an equilibrium that seems to be unattainable.
