Shop millions of independent artists.   Independent.   Together.

Alessandro Fantini - Artist

Alessandro Fantini Art Collections

Browse and shop art collections created by Alessandro Fantini.

Alessandro Fantini was born in Sangro Valley, Italy.   His creative inclination arose during his early childhood when he began drawing comics and writing tales influenced by gothic authors like Edgar Allan Poe and Sheridan le Fanu.   Disliking art school teachings, he learned oil painting techniques by himself and started painting his first canvases in 1993.   During the nineties he developed his own visionary style blending the surrealist attitude with hyperrealism and Flemish painting methods.   In 2002 he graduated with first class honours in modern literature with a thesis about...more
Post on Facebook
Post on Twitter
Post on Pinterest

Joined

2012

Followers

14

Visitors

4,978

Search Within This Collection   |   View All Collections   |   Images = 0

Ab Urbe Incognita

Biomorphic architectures sprouting out from apparently dead structures; enigmatic archways leading to darker or brighter alleys crowded with memories or wasted by nihilist premonitions; shimmering staircases introducing to hermetic doors protecting truths inconceivable by rational knowledge; retro-avangardist thresholds inviting to eerie interiors encrusted by ambiguous entities unable to reveal their real nature; dizzy shadows protruding from oceans of silent skyscrapers erected on the uniform oddity of modern-day society. Still bigger and far more frightening than the entire world wide net and any imaginable artificial intelligence, the human brain can unfold never-ending cityscapes where each feeling, emotion, thought, idea and fantasy lives as a tormented inhabitant looking for a way to draw the definitive map of a place without definition (a concept that Fantini started to develop many years before Nolan could give a cinematic rendering of it in his movie - Inception - ). These paintings are just some of the most evocative samples of the many ones Alessandro Fantini worked out during his relentless quest for the cartography of the Unknown.

Search Within This Collection   |   View All Collections   |   Images = 0