Mural update with Fabio Petani

We just got a few images from Fabio Petani‘s last wall for T.A.G Festival in Imola (Bologna), Italy, but we also had a few images from a previous wall he painted for the Parco dei Murales event in Naples (image above). We can start with oldest and biggest one.

Fabio’s mural for Parco dei Murales (Mural Park)  is the seventh mural created for the project, curated by INWARD, and intended as a redevelopment project, working for a regeneration and territorial enhancement through urban creativity in the Parco Merola of Ponticelli.

As in the rest of his work, Fabio Petani’s work focuses on the experimental transformation of shapes and surfaces that make up the urban landscape, and from which he draws his inspiration from. His murals express a fine balance between organic forms, geometry and lettering, always adding patches of earth colours into a composition characterised by a strong symbolism.

Nothing seems to be random in Fabio Petani’s work. There is always some kind of connection between the depicted elements in his paintings and the composition. Each element is somehow connected to the environment or context they were created in.

This is the case of “O sci che cchiù felice”(the happiest flower in English), a mural is inspired by the research of Aldo Merola, botanist and among the most important directors of the Neapolitan garden.
At the center of the painting we find a Gigaro Chiaro (Arum Italicum), a Mediterranean species present in Vallone di San Gennaro which blooms in March, a time when the mural was started. The Gigaro plant was considered to have magical properties and be able to remove evil spirits and bring love to the life of those who weren’t so lucky in that aspect.

The mural was realized in partnership with Linvea and with the collaboration of the Royal Botanical Garden of Naples – “Federico II” University of Naples.

The second mural was painted more recently in Imola (Bologna) as part of the T.A.G. (Tower, Art and Graffiti) festival, a public art project part of a collaboration between the Hera Group and the Noigiovani Association and RestArt – Urban Festival an itinerant project intended for urban regeneration of specific areas through Street Art and Urban Culture and the creation of murals on eight HERA towers around in the town of Imola.

For the event, Fabio painted one of his signature motives reflecting both the native nature and characteristics of the area. Titled GERMANIUM & RUBUS VILLOSUS, the new mural depicts the plants commonly known as cranesbill and blackberry against a background of whites, blues and yellows. As in the rest of his work, Fabio uses the figure of the circle to center the composition. The main image is in this way intersected by a contrasting sphere in bright yellow that draws our attention to the surrounding lines and blue foliage in the outermost background.

GERMANIUM & RUBUS VILLOSUS Fabio Petani RestArt – Urban Festival Imola (BO), 2018 from Fabio Petani on Vimeo.