Fabio Cacioni

I was born in Tivoli (Rome) in 1977 and I graduated in Economics. Completely self-taught, I started painting in 2006, trying to make up for the lack of teaching with a strong ability to absorb all forms of art, which managed to give me a wealth of ideas and stimuli for an artistic journey that since beginning I had a problem of originality and chromatic and thematic power.
My first works are inevitably marked by a strong naive imprint, where a natural predisposition for the use of warm and tropical colors, was accompanied by the prevalent representation of scenes of life of ethnic groups of the "Third World" (African and Latin American), who have signaled me as an artist of travel and escape; plausible and realistic journeys in the punctuality of details, but "salgariani" (by the Italian writer Emilio Salgari) given the immobility of my residence; and anyway, I think, effective in expressing a sort of disappointment for belonging to a "modern" world only on the surface, but decadent and arid in substance.
Later, the theme of the journey progressively faded, while the colors and the materiality of the color spread on the surface were accentuated, diverting the main theme of my work towards an existentialism with psychedelic hues a...