Fabio Failla - Carnations

The carnation is a highly prized flower throughout Europe, both for its easy availability, its year-round blooms, and its extremely elegant appearance. This plant is known as Dianthus, which in Greek means "flower of the gods," and indeed this magnificent plant, with its myriad shades, was often associated with the god Zeus. In Roman times, it was given as a symbol to the god Jupiter. In Christian tradition, it is said that the flower grew from the tears of the Virgin after she lost her son on the cross. This symbolism is interpreted by the painter Fabio Failla through the still life genre, which has continued to be a significant genre in contemporary art, evolving and reinventing itself through new perspectives and artistic expressions, finding itself both as a subject and a means of exploring conceptual and symbolic concepts.

Fabio Failla, with extreme pictorial mastery, creates a painting depicting a vase of flowers, with pleasing gradations of light. The painter's style, through soft and supple brushstrokes, reinvents reality with a rigor verging on hyperrealistic. Chromatically, the painting is well-balanced, and the use of oil techniques creates well-balanced highlights, creating pictorial depth.

Self-taught artist Fabio Failla was born in Lucca in 1917. Failla's painting developed during his move to Florence, where he had the opportunity to observe the great Tuscan artistic tradition, and then continued his training in the studio of the painter Vagnetti. In 1939, he participated in the Second World War and was imprisoned by the Germans, managing to escape and take refuge in Pollenza, in the Marche region. 1946 marked a turning point in his artistic career, as he decided to move to Rome, where he began exhibiting. His first solo show took place in 1948 at the Chiurazzi Gallery. In the 1950s, he participated in the Venice Biennale and exhibited at the Rome Quadriennale. During this period, he also traveled to the United States, where he continued to exhibit. He died in Rome in 1987.

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