Franco Fasoli: De Afuera Hacia Adentro
“Away from my land for three years. Enough time to reflect on my art and my life. Is the context conditioning me? Could it be that I am conditioning the context? To take a walk out of me, observing from a distance my own work and the history that has been built through this unstoppable eagerness. To watch the story I've told the mirror. To stir old things, to tear out the city that I love, setting up and dismantling possibilities. To disassemble life searching for the inexplicable.” — Franco Fasoli
Franco Fasoli is a multifaceted artist obsessed with technical experimentation. In 2015, he put painting aside to make paper cut collages (most often mounted on canvas) in the way of Matisse. In 2016, he created a much-noticed 12-meter long mural with this technique at the MAC Lyon. The same year, he revealed another aspect of his skills at the Moscow Street Art Biennale with a sculpture that represented an upside down mounted policeman, standing as a metaphor of power overthrow in Russia, the use of polystyrene and polyurethane underlining the precarious and ephemeral nature of the latter. On top of his studio work, Franco Fasoli continues to paint murals around the world, alone or in collaborations with fellow Argentinian Elian or his friend Conor Harrington.
The exhibition De afuera hacia adentro (From the outside to the inside) is the result of a yearlong work and research. It gathers about twenty artworks of various techniques, from oil paint to paper collage on canvas, mixed media pieces and two brand new bronze sculptures.