Matteo Fato's 'Il presentimento di altre possibilità' at Studio Museo Francesco Messina

Matteo Fato (Pescara, 1979) presents 'Il presentimento di altre possibilità' at Studio Museo Francesco Messina in Milan, a solo exhibition that deconstructs painting into its constituent elements and reassembles them into new syntheses. The show spans works from 2005 to the present, featuring self-portraits, hybrid forms blending painting and sculpture, and installations that interact with the deconsecrated Baroque church housing the museum. Fato's early focus on black, gestural mark-making evolves into figuration, with signs extracted and juxtaposed against works. Key pieces include 'Cose Naturali', where a human head is replaced by a pine cone, and 'Il presentimento di altre possibilità', where paint accumulates where a head would be on a bust. The exhibition places Fato's self-portrait opposite Francesco Messina's 'Ritratto di un Autoritratto', creating a dialogue across generations. The show runs in 2019.