Gianni Fabbri

Gianni Fabbri was born in Florence in 1955. After the High School (Liceo Scientifico), he attended the Art Institute of Florence, and in that stimulating atmosphere he started to cultivate his interest in art, and enrolled at the Faculty of Architecture. His primary passion has always been the drawing, but since the late ’70s, while travelling to distant places that have been little known then, like Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Southeast Asia, and then North Africa and South America, he started using watercolors. Practical in view of his various relocations, with time the watercolor technique became his favorite medium. The watercolor gives him the possibility to capture the light, creating strong contrasts with shadow, between light and dark. The color is rich but pale, characterized by a whole range of shades. The scrupulousness that distinguishes his works, and precision in the drawing, bring him toward hyperrealism, which attenuates in the recent works that become more spontaneous, even though always remaining within the figurative art.
The artist finds his subjects in the everyday life, in the urban sceneries of his own city, or in those that he gets to know during his journeys. Fixing the subject with his camer...