On November 23, Magazzino Italian Art, in collaboration with Monacelli Press, presented a talk on the book Luciano Fabro: Reinventing Sculpture by Margit Rowell. Nicola Lucchi, the Museum’s Director of Research & Education, joined Rowell for a conversation on the artist’s work and legacy.
Luciano Fabro (1936–2007) was an Italian sculptor and installation artist known for his refined and unorthodox conceptual works. Initially identified as a core figure in the Arte Povera movement of the late 1960s, Fabro was only tied to the movement for two years at its inception. Driven by relentless curiosity and resistance to labels, he engaged with a range of late twentieth-century media and movements over the course of the following four decades, while always building his own unique paradigms.
Published in collaboration with the Luciano Fabro estate, Luciano Fabro: Reinventing Sculpture is the first complete monograph on this esteemed artist. The book focuses on how Fabro critiqued and reimagined the Italian artistic tradition in works that reference early Renaissance art, sculptures that repurpose materials used in Italian antiquity, and his emblematic Italie series, a career-spanning sculptural project using the silhouette of the Italian Peninsula.
