RizzutoGallery is pleased to present Nur nichts Laues! (Nothing Tepid!), the solo exhibition of Fabio Romano (1988), accompanied by a text by Lorenz Ecker.
Through a body of large-scale works, the artist transforms the pictorial surface into an ecosystem of tensions, where cultural memory and scientific urgency intertwine within a stratified and radical visual narrative. The exhibition title, Nur nichts Laues!, is an exhortation to density and commitment, a programmatic rejection of both chromatic and conceptual indifference. Fabio Romano conceives painting not as mere representation, but as an ontological medium that connects ancestral origins —from cave engravings to Abstract Expressionism—with the anxieties of the present.
In his works, the human being and the natural environment are bound together by a “mycelial network” of impulses: a structure of subterranean exchange in which the painterly gesture acts as a probe. Romano works with the precision of a social surgeon, analysing the “issues” of our political and climatic reality to reveal their internal frictions. Adopting the logic of a “compound eye,” Romano dismantles any singular perspective in favour of complex mosaics. Within this visual “thickness,” figurative elements and abstract fields of colour coexist, compelling the viewer to continuously renegotiate their distance from the painting. Fabio Romano (born in 1988) earned his Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. In 2010, he further developed his research at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. His work is distinguished by an unprecedented synthesis of cultural activism and rigorous material experimentation. He currently lives and works in Düsseldorf, sustaining an ongoing dialogue between Mediterranean sensibility and Mitteleuropean analytical rigour.
Opening: March 20, 6 pm
Nur nichts Laues! runs until May 2, 2026.
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Image: Fabio Romano, Die Begegnung in Pnyx, 2022-2023
