FANTINI

Born in Rome in 1960, Fantini has had a long and varied career in the arts, working as a professional ballet dancer, actor and photographer as well as painter and sculptor. He spent 14 years travelling and living outside Italy, a period that included long sojourns in Asia and in particular Tibet, before returning to Rome in 2000.

Fantini’s travels have had a strong influence on his creativity, contributing to an immediate, primitivist quality in his work that speaks directly to the viewer. At the same time, his paintings rely on an elaborate layering technique which is often combined with cloth insertions. His trademark featureless, red-haired figures and use of simplified areas of colour generate an authenticity that has won him a large following in Italy and abroad.