FABIOLA DI FULVIO
ABOUT FABIOLA
Fabiola Di Fulvio (*1982) moved from Ticino to German-speaking Switzerland at the age of fifteen to pursue her art education. Several trips and studies at various art academies shaped her artistic development, and she ultimately graduated from Bern University of the Arts. Of crucial importance to her development was her training at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, where she was able to deepen her knowledge of academic painting. She tirelessly worked with pencils, charcoal and brushes, a fact that is also reflected in her artistic work.
She works in various genres and formats of painting and drawing, often creating self-portraits and portraits of people she knows, as well as strangers. Stylistically, her paintings often have a Rococo feel. She conducts thorough research for her motifs and meticulously reproduces them on different scales. She combines her precise technique with ironic elements and a dreamlike visual language, incorporating collage into her work. This creates a dissonant tension between the different styles and layers of time and eras underlying the paintings.
Fabiola Di Fulvio often creates and combines motifs that do not exist in reality and are not related to each other. Disparate elements come together, creating an interplay of lightness and heaviness. Playing with the combination of fundamentally incompatible elements — the 'collage' between fantasy and reality — permeates all phases of the work process, including execution using different techniques. Thus, the images mutate into a kind of rebus whose riddle cannot be solved.
Like dreams, the collages are composed of sequences of images that tell ambiguous, infinite stories. The interplay of fragments continues in a state of constant transformation, with the narrative thread changing permanently but never breaking. After all, what would dreams be without their incomprehensibility? Ultimately, dreams are more than just images; with language, they become both narrative and its negation. As Fabiola Di Fulvio's works suggest, dreams are collages, and Di Fulvio's collages are dreams and drafts of 'other' worlds from the artist's imagination.
