Flavia Fanara

Flavia Fanara was born in Rome in 1991, where she lives and works as an artist and visual arts teacher. Flavia Fanara’s artistic training began at the Liceo Artistico di via Ripetta, graduating in visual arts. She continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Via Ripetta in Rome, where in 2013 she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Decoration and in 2015 a Master’s degree in Painting. During her studies she attended the Facultad de Bellas Artes of the University of Salamanca (Spain) as winner of the Erasmus scholarship.
Flavia Fanara’s artistic research is based on continuous experimentation through the use of drawing and painting techniques, mixing a strongly graphic language with a more pictorial one. The central element of her work concerns the representation of the human figure, especially the female one. Focusing her attention on the face of the subjects she paints, she tries to exalt their most introspective part, reflecting on the concept of the individual’s identity and the condition of the female figure in society. For the creation of her works she uses a mixed technique ranging from traditional oil on canvas to charcoal, watercolour and ink on paper or wood.
Through the use of these tools, she tries to represent her figures in a continuous dialogue between a more marked and detailed part and a more subtle, indefinite and almost transparent part. It is conceptually an eternal dialogue between the “inside” and the “outside”, between the “visible” and the “invisible”.

Along her career she has participated in several solo and group exhibitions and art contests, collaborating with various art galleries and museums in Italy. In recent years she has collaborated with the Vatican Museums for the creation of two exhibitions as an artist and collaborator, and workshops on drawing from life at the Gregorian Profane Museum. In 2017 two of her life drawings became part of the Vatican Museums’ private collection of Contemporary Art. She has also collaborated with the Capitoline Museums in Rome, the ancient Museum of the City of Acquapendente in the province of Viterbo, the MAC Museo Archeologico Cicolano in the province of Rieti and the MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Rome. In 2018 she contributed as an illustrator with the artistic association DeltArte and Amnesty International to the publication of the book “In Arte DUDU. The Declaration of Human Rights illustrated by young Italian artists”. In 2019 she was selected and exhibited at SyArt Sorrento Festival, an international contemporary art event. In 2019 it was selected by the MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome to participate in an artist residency at the Museum’s atelier. In 2020 she participated in the Italo-Austrian collective exhibition “Destination Freedom”, a project promoted by the Visual Artists Association “BVBK Osterreuch – Section Steiermark” at the Airport Gallery in Graz “Galerie am Flughafen”, Austria.

Below critical note by Rossella Savarese

Young and talented artist frome Roma Flavia Fanara, born in 1991, teacher of visual arts with an interesting artistic path under her belt.

Experimentation and in-depth studies abroad allow her to have developed a personal language, focused on a meticulous analysis of the human face, mainly female.

Flavia Fanara testifies, through the use of multiple techniques, a dialogue that manifests itself in the here and now, in the time of a present narration, in continuous exploration of the inside and outside, of being present to oneself and the contextual loss, of the invisible and manifest. Women who conceptually suggest a boundary, an examination of a perennial interview, part of an identity search process.

The choice of techniques and the consequent refinement in use reveal a study and deepening of an artistic language that translates a very precise message, accompanying the line in the tonal gradation of a charcoal shade, rather than in the incisiveness of an ink passage of separation between what is given to see and what we can imagine. Not infrequently the eyes of the subject are half closed or do not show as if shortly afterwards the drawing can take back form and content, in reality, looking inside oneself, the work is reaching its completion.

TheOpera that I choose is entitled “Fade into you”, a work that allows an investigation on the concept of continuation and fading of oneself in the other. In this case we are faced with a female bust, the head reclined and lying in the hand, suggests a moment of recollection and reflection. The duotone underlines a subtle separation between the head and the body, in which the emotional process is synthesized in the half-closed eyes, in a part of the face where the graphic line is more incisive.

The technique is mixed: charcoal, bic pen, watercolor and pastel on paper, size 70 x 50 cm.

Sold in Private Collection.