About artist
Domenico - Mimmo Fatigati was born in 1949 in Acerra (NA-Italy) where he still lives and works today. After attending the "F. Palizzi" State Institute of Art and then the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, he began his artistic career in 1969 with his participation in the La Feluca d'Oro National Visual Art Award in Bari, where he was immediately acclaimed by the critics. Although still a student, he was a frequent visitor to the studio of Luigi Pezzato, and was in turn a member of several judging commissions. Since 1981 he has run an exhibition space called Il Ritrovo dell'Arte. The creative artist from Campania is a teacher of descriptive geometry at the Liceo Artistico and elsewhere, and in 1989 was behind the creation of the "B. Munari" Art Institute in his home town, where he has been the head. He has always been interested in Optical Art and Abstractionism, and has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows in Italy and abroad (Caserta, Savona, Mantua, Naples, Brussels) and has had his works exhibited in prestigious galleries. Part of his artistic production also belongs to private collections. A member of the Astractura group from 2011 to March 2015, from April of the same year he co-founded the Chromatic Linearism movement characterised by the predominant use of line and colour (the manifesto was officially presented, with the artists' signatures, at the Gaeta Art Gallery on 12/12/2015). It is immediately evident how Domenico - Mimmo Fatigati's works, quoting the academic Giorgio Agnisola, are based on <<research connected with visual perception and, for the most part, with the suggestions and dynamics of a rigorous and geometrically marked sign (...)>>. The artist makes use of objects and shapes with which he builds modular and relevant structures (...). These are structures, panels conceived as visual machines, more or less complex and articulated, also on a chromatic level (...) generally using objects of identical form, arranged according to variable currents of direction, direction and colour. The latter undergoes the reflection of light in relation to its position>>. But it is then on the equilibrium-balance of the forms and of the colour, on the interlacements, on the superimpositions, on the tones, on the relief and on the depth of the inserts used in relation to the support surface that Mimmo finally arrives at a dynamic work. A synthesis made up of rigorous visual pieces internally modulated not only in form and colour but also in a reciprocal chromatic and spatial relationship. The materials chosen are small cylinders and wooden sticks, metal washers, strips of plastic laminate and others to give life to aniconic images, in a mixed technique characterised by the use of some sort of perceptive grids, thanks to the use of colour and graphics. Lastly, Professor Gaetano Romano emphasised that Mimmo's research is not strictly sign-based but rather that <<from the social or sociological point of view - which sees the artist engaged in elaborating visions and plots, as well as articulated facades recalling the compositional architectures of modern rational and geometric buildings, the result of the compositional fantasies of architects and town planners, who assign these pre-packaged spaces to a humanity that is increasingly in search of space and freedom. (...) landscapes deteriorated by deforestation and illegal building, of a sloppy and utilitarian architecture, of objects whose shapes no longer preserve any trace of the shrewd work and human attention>>.