Edited with text by Stefano Collicelli Cagol. Text by Giorgio Di Domenico, Filippo Bosco, Chiara Portesine, Michele Bertolino.
Fratino’s tender portraiture and intimate interiors evoke his own associations with the Italian landscape and cultural tradition
This volume presents a selection of work from American painter Louis Fratino, centered on his relationship with Italy, one of the artist’s main cultural contexts of reference and a perspective through which to view both his artistic and his personal experience. His works evoke the landscapes, people and cultural context that animate the artist’s everyday life, creating intense and erotically charged atmospheres. Alongside paintings, drawings, etchings and sculptures from the last decade, Satura includes new works providing a thorough investigation of the artist’s practice. The title Satura comes from the Latin meaning of the word, referring to lanx satura, a dish filled with first fruits intended for the gods, from which descended a literary genre characterized by a variety of styles. In Italian, satura translates to “saturated” or “filled.” Both Latin and Italian meanings resonate well with the richness and formal feast of Fratino’s art. Louis Fratino was born in Maryland in 1993 and received his BFA in Painting with concentration in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He is currently featured in the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. His work is included in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the RISD Museum, Providence; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Fratino lives and works in Brooklyn.
"Tom in Albisola" (2020) from 'Louis Fratino: Satura.'
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Focussing on beauty in an era marked by much ugliness, 'Satura' feels like a subtle act of resistance.
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Throughout 'Satura,' the body becomes an extension of the space [...] and, like the Satura Lanx once given to the gods, offers up something that is achingly human.
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Dreamy and lush, Louis Fratino’s “You and your things” (2022) is reproduced from Satura, out now in its second printing with a new, 27x37-inch fold-out poster cover of this very artwork. Published to accompany the artist’s recent exhibition at Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Florence, the book itself is also oversized and printed on two deluxe papers. “Louis Fratino’s painting cannot do without poetry, but it is not literary,” Chiara Portesine writes. “In his works, the covers of books are scattered over tables, desks, even kitchen sinks. Fratino’s domestic microcosm seems to teem with writings and writers, and yet his figures, those totems of uncouth tenderness, rarely tell a story or present a neat plot of actions. Rather, they are an expression of the static and absolute moment of an epiphany.” continue to blog
FORMAT: Pbk, 10.75 x 13.5 in. / 144 pgs / 96 color / 20 b&w / 1 poster. LIST PRICE: U.S. $50.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $75 ISBN: 9788867496563 PUBLISHER: Mousse Publishing AVAILABLE: 2/11/2025 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA LA AFR ME
Published by Mousse Publishing. Edited with text by Stefano Collicelli Cagol. Text by Giorgio Di Domenico, Filippo Bosco, Chiara Portesine, Michele Bertolino.
Fratino’s tender portraiture and intimate interiors evoke his own associations with the Italian landscape and cultural tradition
This volume presents a selection of work from American painter Louis Fratino, centered on his relationship with Italy, one of the artist’s main cultural contexts of reference and a perspective through which to view both his artistic and his personal experience. His works evoke the landscapes, people and cultural context that animate the artist’s everyday life, creating intense and erotically charged atmospheres. Alongside paintings, drawings, etchings and sculptures from the last decade, Satura includes new works providing a thorough investigation of the artist’s practice. The title Satura comes from the Latin meaning of the word, referring to lanx satura, a dish filled with first fruits intended for the gods, from which descended a literary genre characterized by a variety of styles. In Italian, satura translates to “saturated” or “filled.” Both Latin and Italian meanings resonate well with the richness and formal feast of Fratino’s art.
Louis Fratino was born in Maryland in 1993 and received his BFA in Painting with concentration in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He is currently featured in the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. His work is included in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the RISD Museum, Providence; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Fratino lives and works in Brooklyn.
