Fabio Pietrantonio Italy, 1966
Natural Love. 2017

Mixed media on cardboard, with the use of fabric,
paper, rope and copper foil, 212×162 cm

Fabio Pietrantonio was born in Turin on November 27th, 1966.

He began his artistic experience through organizing parties and themed events in Ibiza (Spain), Porto Cervo (Sardinia) and in Milan, planning and making all of the decorations artwork.

Since the early 90s, they start even the first group exhibitions with other Italian artists.

Always in Sardinia, he met the sculptor Gaspare Da Brescia where he became the aide for about three years taking part in the execution of religious subjects assigned works from the Vatican Museums, the experience that will mark the first Pietrantonio contact with a sacred iconography and his independent and original approach to the biblical emblems.

The journeys and long stays in Australia proved to be extremely pro for which its path of artistic growth. He gets early in contact with groups of artists and schools in Sydney and Byron Bay but the encounter with indigenous peoples to influence its formation greatly.

Pietrantonio begins his personal quest noting the symbolism and spirituality of Aboriginal Australians; drawing from a civilization still linked to a primitive lifestyle and a culture that is intact and unspoiled by progress and industrialization, he takes full awareness of those who will form the building blocks of his poetic vision centered on a newfound inner balance and a harmonious affinity with nature.

Another trip that deeply marks him was in New Mexico, where he met and explore the Native American Pueblos, meeting the elders and discovering the suggestions of the rituals and the charm of the celebration through the symbolism of the sacred.

The artist perceives an inner message from these cultures and understands the importance of overcoming the states of alienation and uneasiness that characterize contemporary western society rediscovering an original and organic relationship with creation.

The Pietrantonio’s “cosmic order artwork” is expressed through the use of materials such as wood, stone, dust, sand, and pigments balanced with metals, gauzes, coatings, strings and also gold petals. Items that selects carefully in order from pristine environments and then match them carefully on the canvas, in installations or performance rituals in search of a harmony of shapes, colors, and sensations.

Meeting him during his shows and in preparation to them in his atelier in Milan as in Turin, people come into direct contact with the artist, sharing the creative inspiration of the while.

Fabio Pietrantonio, with his sunny personality, friendly and dynamic, is the exact reverse of the stereotype of the reserved and tormented that pours into their artworks with conflicts, anxieties, and existential stress.

After the series of terrorist attacks that occurred in the world since 2004 Pietrantonio starts to paint and to represent totemic animals protective symbols conveying messages of peace and faith.

Strongly impressed by the person of Karol Wojtila, Pietrantonio begins a parallel time of sacred art,
interpreting various portraits of Giovanni Paolo II and focusing especially on the intense message spirituality emerged in the latter stages of the cate bridges marked by suffering and fighting disease.

The mystical longing that characterizes the search for Pietrantonio goes beyond religious beliefs, and look for the deep sense of reunification between man and nature, according to a mystical and shamanic vision.

His studio, a short walk from Santa Maria Delle Grazie in Milan, is a place designed for the sharing and exchange of ideas with friends, collectors, and cultural workers; from September 2015 it is also the archive documentary headquarters whose staff is responsible for cataloging and enhancement of the artist by organizing exhibitions, performances, and publications.