Franco Fabri, son of the Terni artist Otello Fabri (1919-2001) donated 107 of his father’s works of art to the Cassamarca Foundation of Treviso where other works by his father are already present, received in 2008 with the bequest of Mons. Gino Bortolan. These are 2 canvases, 1 watercolour, a mixed technique, 2 zincographies and 101 engravings:
- The Trapeze (circa 1973), oil on canvas, com.148×120;
- Venice, (1974), oil on canvas, com.100×80;
- Landscape (1974), watercolour, 49.5×60 cm;
- Nudino (1973), pastel/ink/biro, cm. 33×25;
- Face 1, hand-watercolored zincography
- Face 2, hand-watercolored zincography
- 101 engravings.
The artist Otello Fabri (Terni, 1919-2001) was a painter and engraver, a leading exponent of the Umbrian pictorial panorama. Artist trained at his father’s school in the creation of stucco for architectural mouldings. Then moving on to drawing, he dedicated himself to painting and engravings.
The first oils, watercolors and pastels date back to the early 1950s and mainly represent Umbrian landscapes. In the Sixties he moved to Venice, where he perfected himself in the art of graphics, and to Nice from which he drew inspiration for the light and colors of his works. He produced a vast series of oils, watercolours, pastels and etchings in his unmistakable artistic language.
He is considered by critics to be one of the most representative artistic exponents of the second half of the Italian twentieth century. The artist in 1972 and then the Fabri family in 2013 donated a total of 120 works to the municipal art gallery of Terni. In 1972 Otello Fabri received the gold medal from the civic administration and in 2013 the naming of “Largo Otello Fabri” in the historic center of the city.
Since the 1950s he has exhibited his works in Italy, France, England, Switzerland, Croatia, USA, South Africa, obtaining numerous prizes and recognitions. Today his works are in various public and private collections, including: A. de Felice Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Terni), Villa Colloredo Mels Civic Museum (Recanati), Capuchin Civic Museum (Bagnacavallo); International Graphics Center of Venice, Cassa di Risparmio di Terni and Narni Foundation, Graphics Museum of Palazzo Lanfranchi (Pisa); Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum (Livorno), Il Bisonte Foundation (Florence); Adalberto Sartori Prints Collection (Mantua), Academy of Drawing Arts (Florence); Graphic Art Collection (Milan), Carol Morganti Collection (Milan).
For the Cassamarca Foundation, this is the umpteenth donation of works of art received after that of Mons. Bortolan, Dino Gavagnin, Narci Simion, Alexander Kanevsky, Ernesto Mattiuzzi and Ezio Ciprian.
