Matteo Fato's 'Florilegio' Exhibition at Spazio K in Urbino

Matteo Fato (born 1979 in Pescara) presents a solo exhibition at Spazio K in Urbino, conceived as a single installative painting that immerses visitors in a poetic temporal circuit. The show, titled 'Florilegio' (meaning selection or anthology), features recent works that revisit two thematic moments in Fato's research: easels and busts. The exhibition takes stock of the artist's recent past while opening up to dialogue and re-emerging from physical space. Key works include 'Per gli angeli più alti' (2015-2017), a colossal easel that functions as a polysemic unit of measurement, connecting earlier and recent works and framing the viewer's relationship with the painting space. Another major piece, 'Eresia (del) Florilegio' (2018), is a study of the artist's body/mind progression, where the physicality of paint, organic cerebral agglomerates, and free-floating gesture-signs collide in incessant random motion, releasing energy. The exhibition was reviewed by Adele Cappelli, a contemporary art educator and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Urbino.