Ecce Homo: Solo Show of Works by Fausta Squatriti in Tsereteli Art Gallery

Organized by the Italian Institute of Culture in Moscow  and Russian Academy of Arts, the solo show features paintings, graphic art, installations by the renowned Italian artist Fausta Squatriti.

The name of this master of contemporary art is well-known in many countries. Fausta Squatriti successfully works as a painter, graphic artist, sculptor, photographer, an author of installations, she also devotes herself to visual arts, poetry and art criticism.

Her work is distinguished by a constant dialogue between painting, graphic art and sculpture, between a plane and 3D object. Multiple variations of one and the same iconographic topic – square, cube, cross and their diverse transformations are her working method. The artist’s paintings and graphic works, often in the technique of collage, are represented as diptychs and triptychs. In her sculptural compositions Fausta Squatriti uses both traditional and industrial materials.

Fausta Squatriti was born in Milan in 1941.  Her works were exhibited in Stockholm, New York, Houston, in Latin America, Tel-Aviv, Geneva, Paris,  in many cities of Germany. In 1986 she was a curator of the show “Art and Science: Color” at Venice Biennale, in the 1980-s won two prizes at the Biennale Competition in San Francisco. 

For twenty years Fausta Squatriti has taught painting and graphic art at the Academies of Arts in Venice and Carrara, at present she teachers at the Brera Academy in Milan and universities of a number of other countries.

Squatriti’s creative work is divided into several major cycles, in which one can see the theme of sufferings, agony and disintegration of the organic world as the artist’s reaction to cataclysms of the environment.

On display in Tsereteli Art Gallery are her four cycles created in 1998-2009.  These are strict and at the same time poetic installations devoted to the frailty of human’s existence, that are a kind of research into the nature of pain and cruelty, evil and loss of hope.  Her works reveal the fragility and instability of the human inner world balancing on the verge of ruin.  

The solo show “Ecce Homo” is Fausta Squatriti’s appeal not to be indifferent to the environment  and to feel  the pain of other people as your own.   






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