Fabiola Di Fulvio
At the age of fifteen, Fabiola Di Fulvio (*1982) moved from Ticino to German-speaking Switzerland to begin her studies in fine art here. Several trips and studies at various art academies shaped her artistic development, and she finally graduated from the Hochschule der Künste in Bern. Her training at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, where Fabiola Di Fulvio was able to deepen her knowledge of academic painting, was of decisive importance. She worked tirelessly with pencil, charcoal and brush, which is also reflected in her artistic work.
Fabiola Di Fulvio deals with different genres and formats of painting and drawing, often with self-portraits and portraits of people she knows, but sometimes also unknown to her. Stylistically, the pictures often have something rococo-like; she carries out precise research into the motifs and reproduces them meticulously on different scales. She combines this precise technique with ironic elements and a dreamy visual language, also using collage. In this way, she achieves a dissonant tension between various styles, layers of time and epochs on which the pictures are based. Fabiola Di Fulvio often creates and combines motifs that do not really exist and are not related to each other. Disparate things come together, with impressions of lightness and heaviness overlapping. The play with the combination of the essentially incompatible, the «collage» between fantasy and reality, permeates all phases of the work process, including the execution in different techniques. The images thus mutate into a kind of rebus, the riddle of which, however, cannot be solved.
The collages of image sequences come together like dreams and tell ambiguous, infinite stories. The interplay of fragments continues, in constant transformation, and the narrative thread never breaks off, changing permanently. After all, what would dreams be without their incomprehensibility? Dreams are much more than mere images; with language, they become a narrative and its negation at the same time. Dreams – one could say with regard to Fabiola di Fulvio’s works – are collages, and Di Fulvio’s collages in turn are dreams and drafts of «other» worlds from the artist’s imagination and approach.
