Structure and Form- GRIDS-

Analytical Fresco Paintings-

In modern physics, the universe is thus experienced as a dynamic, inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.
(Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics, 1975)

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Quietly walking through Nigredo
Fresco and pigments on curved wooden panel
cm 155 x 210 x 15

Quietly walking through Nigredo
" The transformative Power of Art"
Exhibition at United Nations Visitors Lobby, New York.

There are two ways in which the grid paintings by Fabrizio Ruggiero assert to be central to Contemporary Art .
One is spatial; the other is temporal.
In the spatial sense, the grid states the autonomy of the realm of art. Flattened, geometricized, ordered, it is antinatural, antimimetic, antireal. In the flatness that results from its coordinates, the grid is the means of crowding out the dimensions of the real and replacing them with the lateral spread of a single surface. In the overall regularity of its organization, it is the result not of imitation, but of aesthetic decree. Insofar as its order is that of pure relationship, the grid is a way of abrogating the claims of natural objects to have an order particular to themselves; the relationships in the aesthetic field are shown by the grid to be in a world apart and, with respect to natural objects, to be both prior and final. The grid declares the space of art to be at once autonomous and autotelic, having an end or purpose in itself.

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Explore the Monochromes →

A monotype is a print, but with one major difference from other printmaking processes:
the artist creates exactly one print, instead of multiples (called editions).
This is due to the way a monotype is made.

Four coloured fragments, double-face

T r a d i t i o n -M o v i n g -A h e a d

A project for Museo Bardini Florence 2015