III edition - 2009

Marco Colazzo

Tutti i mondi è paese

As seen by the Roman painter Marco Colazzo, the blue-and-white jar of Fabbri Amarena becomes a cosmos in its own right. Hence this small robot fixing its sights on the (unknown or desired?) object; hence the ten moons revolving around this creature within a Martian sky. In effect, the artist uses painting to create a habitat where life and dream intersect, one producing the consequences of the other. Geometrical abstraction is a powerful component of works which over the years have veered towards Concretism and Surrealism without ever losing their internal coherence. Colazzo uses puppet or robots as the best way of combining everything within a single figure; however he never paints a real person (perhaps out of sense of delicacy). Once again, the characters in the picture are unnamed and unidentified, leaving the stage entirely to the Fabbri logo.

Marco Colazzo