Fausto Gilberti: Scary Drawings

Someone – who knows who – once said: 'Art must be ambiguous. And it must contain a virus.' There you go. Fausto Gilberti's works produce this kind of effect; you come out contaminated. The symbolic evocations, which hurl you into enigmatic landscapes of the soul. Those dense ink strokes; or chaotic storms, drowned forms, beasts. The disorienting processions of characters that eye you with questioning looks from their desolate lands... — Sacha NaspiniBig, enormous eyes, stylized figures in black and white, slender, reduced to the minimum in their lines yet with a great visual impact. In these ink-on-paper drawings, Fausto Gilberti gifts us, with his unmistakable style, a procession of frightened yet always amazed and curious characters, where the technique helps to strengthen and amplify the theme of the drawings.Disegni da Paura (Scary Drawings) is a must-have collection for fans of the artist, known for his essential, biting, and ironic strokes. A book with unpublished works, it also gathers the ninety drawings displayed in the eponymous exhibition at the Wizard Gallery in Milan, from November 2024 to January 2025.
ISBN 9791254931554. Edizioni Corraini. pb. 112 pages. 24 x 17 cm.
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