Matteo Fato on Choosing to Stay in Pescara: A Painter's Cosmic Provincialism
Matteo Fato, a painter from Pescara, has chosen to remain in his hometown, where he maintains a studio in the industrial sector. Pescara is a finalist for the Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2026. Fato's recent exhibition, titled "Il difficile è dimenticare ciò che si è visto per casa," featured over 200 works across fifteen venues and opened in June 2025, curated by Simone Ciglia and supported by Fondazione La Rocca. Teaching at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino for nearly two decades, Fato reflects on Abruzzo's beauty, quoting Ennio Flaiano's vivid description of the region.
Key facts
- Matteo Fato is a painter born in Pescara in 1979, where he has his studio in the industrial area.
- Pescara was a finalist for the Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2026.
- Fato's diffuse exhibition 'Il difficile è dimenticare ciò che si è visto per casa' opened in June 2025, curated by Simone Ciglia and promoted by Fondazione La Rocca.
- The exhibition included over 200 works across fifteen public and private venues in Pescara.
- Fato teaches at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino for nearly twenty years.
- Urbino's graphics department is among the best in Italy, with a new biennium in Graphic Art and a collaboration with the 2RC printshop.
- Fato participated in Straperetana, a diffuse event in Pereto.
- Fato quotes Ennio Flaiano describing Abruzzo as 'an island squeezed between an exemplary sea and two mountains that cannot be ignored, monumental and free.'
Entities
Artists
- Matteo Fato
- Lucrezia De Domizio Durini
- Mario Pieroni
- Cesare Manzo
- Giacinto di Pietrantonio
- Simone Weil
- Philip Guston
- Ennio Flaiano
- David Hammons
- Maja Bajevic
- Nicolas Bourriaud
- Simone Ciglia
- Ottorino La Rocca
- Gianni Garrera
- Sokurov
- Michele Alberto Sereni
- Alex Urso
Institutions
- Artribune
- Fondazione La Rocca
- Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino
- Museo dell'Ottocento
- Museo delle Genti d'Abruzzo
- Convento Michetti
- 2RC
- Monitor
- Banca d'Italia
Locations
- Pescara
- Italy
- Abruzzo
- Urbino
- Pereto
- Rome
- Lisbon
- Oregon