Fabrizio Clerici - Graphic Design Collection

No. 5 works 90x70

No. 1 works 70x70

The human figure has always been at the center of artistic research. Since the classical age, the naturalistic rendering of human anatomy has been a primary goal of painters and sculptors throughout history. The representation of the nude is the ultimate expression of this aspiration, pervasive across all eras and stylistic movements. Indeed, in addition to the naturalistic interpretations of the Renaissance and various classicisms, which aimed for a truthful and detailed representation of the human body, the nude has also played a leading role in the new aesthetic concepts brought about by the historical avant-garde, such as Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism.

In this series of prints, artist Fabrizio Clerici develops his own study of the human figure, and the male nude in particular, but he does so, as is his wont, creating a visionary and surreal representation. The artist invents a space that is alienating in its implausibility: a concept that directly harks back to Renè Magritte, who seems to be directly referenced in the illusory superimpositions between canvases and walls. Clerici thus creates a play of interlocking and impossible dimensional planes in which he develops a complex description of anatomy. In this regard, Clerici's citations do not stop at Magritte; the tangle of naked bodies seems to hark back to Michelangelo's famous cartoon of the "Battle of Cascina," which is consistently broken down and remixed in a distinctly surrealist operation. Formally, the composition is characterized by Fabrizio Clerici's signature hyper-objective language, consistently in line with the surrealist aesthetic of his artistic practice.

Fabrizio Clerici, born in Milan in 1913 and died in Rome in 1993, was a painter, engraver, and set designer. He was an eclectic artist whose compositional matrix was open to numerous influences, which Clerici was able to rework through the sensibilities of his era: from Giovan Battista Piranesi to Athanasius Kircher, from Caspar David Friedrich to Arnold Böcklin. An internationally renowned artist, his works have been exhibited at the MOMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, and the Vatican Museums.

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