Fausto Gilberti

Lost Control
October 25 - December 22, 2012

Opening October 25, 7 pm

Lost Control is the title of Fausto Gilbert’s next exhibition at Federico Luger gallery in Milan .
The title alludes to one of Joy Division’s most famous songs, “She’s Lost Control”. It is believed that the song tells the story of a friend of Curtis who died after continuous epileptic attacks, of which also Ian used to suffer.

Gilberti’s work as we know it has followed a path that could be described as sinusoidal. It has alternated full and void, expanding and contracting, not in qualitative, but in formal terms. The horror vacui that characterized his works from the end of the ‘90 has gradually given space to the graphic minimalism of massive canvases of a few years later, then to the excessive richness of details of the subsequent series Materia Grigia (Grey Matter); that got exhausted to open the way to the latest series of drawings Rockstars in which the greatest names of the history of rock n’ roll are physionomically portrayed with just a few essential signs of drawing pen.

In the present exhibition in Milan, Gilberti looses control, and he does it voluntarily. He makes us see the backstage of the show, the sound check: drawings, water-colours, paintings on paper, on canvas, on cardboard, on wood, Gilberti purposely confronted these media without a project, giving in to errors, to momentary thought, to evanescent ideas, suggesting to his confident hand to let go, not to perfect the sign, to lose control. May be.

CV-Bio
Fausto Gilberti was born in 1970.

He is a thin little man, with big and staring eyes, with a static and flat body, and a surprised and puzzled look.

His ideal place is the kitchen where he works, drawing day and night on a table that was used to make pork salami.

He won the ACACIA Prize at MiArt 2004 and the CAIRO Prize in 2007, he has a record of over a hundred group and solo exhibitions, national and international.

For the last three years he has also devoted himself to illustrated books and he has published with Corraini — the publishing house from Mantua — the book Rockstars, a sort of very personal illustrated history of rock music; and L’Orco che mangiava bambini, his first book for kids.

He lives and works in Brescia.


Recent solo exhibitions

2011
Rockstars reloaded, Galleria Maurizio Corraini , Mantua.
2010
Just a little bit dark, Galleria Ronchini, Terni.
2006
Materia grigia, Galleria 1000 eVenti, Milan.
2004
Bizarre Show, Galleria Perugi, Padua.

Selected group exhibitions
2012
63° Prize Michetti "Popism", Fondazione Michetti, Francavilla al mare, Chieti.
2011
Tra il sublime e l’idiota. L’umorismo nell’arte contemporanea italiana, Palazzo Parisani-Bezzi, Tolentino.
Live, l'arte incontra il rock, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
2010
Cosa fa la mia anima mentre sto lavorando, MAGA, Gallarate, Varese.
Top secret, Galleria Federico Luger, Milan.
Orde di segnatori, Galleria Antonio Colombo, Milan.
2009
Love me Fender, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica, Bologna.
Appetite for Destruction, Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi, Lucca.
2008
Drawings in action, Disegni animati dall’Italia, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato.
2007
Selection 2007, Proje4L Elgiz contemporary art museum, Istanbul.
2006
Colleccìon VAC, IVAM, Valencia, Spain.
Today even the drawers are winners, Klara Wallner Galerie und Klara Wallner Plus, Berlin.
2005
Shade, Koelsch Gallery, Huston, Texas, USA.
Clip’IT, Fondazione Sandretto Re-Rebaudengo, Torino.


Federico Luger Gallery
Via Circo, 1
20123 Milano
T. +39 02 673 913 41
www.federicoluger.com

Upcoming show
Fausto Gilberti
Lost Control
October 25-December 22, 2012
Opening October 25, 7-9PM