Born into a Savona family of artists— his father, Achille, was a painter of the Socialismo Reale school— Vincenzo Cabiati is best known as a ceramicist and sculptor; however he also produces work that mixes together a number of different media: photography, video, ceramics, bronze, wax, installation art, etc.
His piece for Fabbri once again expresses his individual pictorial vision, influenced by his range of experience in media from photography to painting. The underlying principle is that of a transposition of the real, which is here re-presented to the spectator in a number of original visions. In Oasi a man whom the artist knows very well (his alter ego?) is portrayed in shirt and jacket whilst he seems to have nodded off in a comfortable corner of the house amidst a number of old paintings. Encapsulating a somnolent interval prior to an awaited event, this is an image important not because of its origin but because of the way Cabiati re-works it. The artist seems to interiorise the vision before reproducing it, then re-presenting it via the filter of various memories, feelings and evocations. He alludes but does not explain, suggests rather than makes manifest. Here the world of Fabbri becomes a subtle decorative motif, legible through the transparency of the plexiglas.