IV edition - 2012

Roberto Ferri

Ebe

The association made by Giovanni Gasparro between “vice and amarena cherries” is perfectly appropriate to describe the excessive greed that Fabbri fruits inevitably bring about: if in everyday reality the vice is translated into “gluttony”, understood precisely as the uncontrollable desire for the pleasures of taste, in the painterly dimension of the young artist from Puglia, the theme of insatiability becomes the cue in order to tackle the disquiet of the contemporary world, grasping the psychopathological manifestation of man in a figurative way. The degradation of the human being and his brutal transformation, caused by the lack of rationality, make Gasparro operate in the sphere of a physical transfiguration close to European Expressionism for the staging of the fast-burning degenerative process; in the same way the cupidity of the body, originating from a natural (and therefore intrinsically human) need becomes the dramatic metaphor of the inner conflict that not only consumes but deforms through the irreversibility of the tragedy: we do not choose, therefore, to be “spoiled”, but it is part of our destiny to be so, without knowing how to resist the temptations.

Roberto Ferri