CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/23/2025

Absolute moments of epiphany in 'Louis Fratino: Satura'

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.”