Structure & Form — Analytical Fresco

Structure & Form articulates the methodological dimension of Fabrizio Ruggiero’s analytical fresco practice, foregrounding the constructive logic through which the image comes into being. Here, form is not conceived as a pre-given figure, but as the provisional outcome of material processes, temporal sequences, and spatial constraints.

Working through fragments, grids, and modular surfaces, the practice approaches painting as a field of operations rather than a site of representation. The image is assembled through layers, interruptions, and intervals; what appears is the residue of a process that remains legible on the surface. In this sense, structure operates not merely as a formal device, but as an epistemic tool: a way of thinking through making.

The surface retains the legibility of its own making. Rather than offering a closed image to be consumed, the work invites the viewer into a reading of process: an attentive engagement with layers, interruptions, material resistances, and temporal sequences through which form has come into being.

By insisting on the conditions of production—substrate, scale, rhythm, and duration—the work situates fresco within a contemporary logic of construction. Form emerges as a negotiated event between intention and resistance, control and contingency, planning and material response. The resulting surfaces hold the trace of this negotiation, inviting the viewer into a slow, reflective encounter with the conditions of their own visibility.