Fabrizio Ruggiero

In his early youth in Naples, Fabrizio Ruggiero, when admiring the frescoes from Pompeii, he felt that sense of awe and wonder that for the ancient Greeks was the beginning of knowledge. In 1984 he moved to Tuscany and established Architectura Picta, an innovative workshop where he started to reflect on the internal structure of the language of fresco painting that he developed using contemporary technologies.
Over the last thirty years, Fabrizio Ruggiero spent long periods in Asia, where he explored Indian thought and searched for visual patterns common to different cultures summarizing the results in a graphic work, which he called Family Resemblances in homage to Ludwig Wittgenstein.
His interest for the shape and format of the support of painting led him to confront the relationship between form, material and space focusing on the form in space. His research takes place along the axis of modeling, shaping in a soft manner. In his abstract sculptures, looking for lightness, he uses mats of reeds and plaster that are one of the distinctive characteristics of his sculptures. Later on he became interested in portrait and considers the human face to be a territory and painting as the process to build a map of it. In 2001 he collab...

Facoltà di Architettura, napoli

2015 Casa Italiana of New York University, NY

2015 Major exhibition of his sculptures and sixteen portraits dedicated to the theme The Transformative Power of Art was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Charter of the United Nations

2015 Le Monde des Femmes,
Maison de la Chine in Paris, France

2014 TRIBUTE TO TRADITIONS: CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN UNITY permanent exhibition at the National Museum of Cameroon in Yaoundé.

2013 Tio Ilar VI Athens

2012 OGADHA ...Quel mar al qual tutto si move. Installazione_2012
Mapping maps , installation, Galbino Castle, 2012


2011 Ab OVO- Castel dell'OVO Napoli
Boîte-en-valise II, red. (2011)
PAN PALAZZO DELLE ARTI NAPOLI
DOUBLE PORTRAIT OF ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER AND LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN


2010 " A BRUIT SECRET & PANDORA'S BOX" SANLORENZOARTE, POPPI,TUSCANY, ITALY


2008

ICASTIC AGGREGATES... WHERE ALL CAME TOGETHER...
PRECIUOSSS ART GALLERY, HIGH TIBER VALLEY, TUSCANY, ITALY

2007
Installation “The summer Triangle, Orpheus, Deneb and Altair”
Casentino, Tuscany

2006
De Galeriet, Delden the Netherlands
The Wa...