Research Grid
Research Node · Structural Inquiry
Painting · Fresco · Analytical Process
Analytical fresco fragment — the grid as a silent field of perception.
The grid functions here not as a decorative or compositional motif, but as a fundamental perceptual device. Within Fabrizio Ruggiero’s practice, the grid operates as a silent structure: a field that suspends narrative, resists illusion, and foregrounds the conditions of seeing.
Rooted in the historical legacy of modernism yet detached from its ideological rigidity, the grid becomes an open system. It is neither a symbol nor a closed form, but a generative framework through which painting unfolds as process, duration, and material presence.
In fresco and monochrome works alike, the grid articulates a tension between control and emergence. Each unit functions autonomously while remaining part of a larger, interconnected whole—mirroring natural systems in which order arises without hierarchy.
“The grid does not organize the image; it suspends it.”
As a research node, the grid establishes a conceptual bridge between painting, architecture, and cognition. It frames perception as an active field, inviting the viewer into a state of attentive observation rather than interpretive closure.