Vivid Vegetation
by Vico Fabbris
May 1st – May 31st, 2015
Gurari Collections is pleased to present an exhibition of watercolor paintings and work- on-paper by the artist Vico Fabbris. Entitled, VIVID VEGETATION, the exhibition expands upon the artist's exploration of nature's vegetation as an imagined world. Culled from his familiarity with plant and flower species, Vico has synthesized imagination and reality in these works of art. He envisions a world of the slightly surrealistic, complete with fictitious latin names or a genus story as part of the painting. He is especially attuned to the loss of nature and the fragility of species. Vico replaces the lost habitat with the real and imagined combined.
In this new exhibition he pushes his painting technique in new directions. Loose and expressive, his work proposes plants and flowers with a scientific level of detail, yet his creations have an enigmatic flair that presupposes believability. Vico’s natural world seems familiar yet it clearly is not.
As a result, he delights the eye by creating the satirical and absurd as well as the "almost real". Whether engaging an imagined context, by a supporting story, or alone in mid-air suspension, Vico Fabbris' artwork is vivd, exuberant, and a celebration of the inventive mind.
