Palazzo Merulana, in synergy with the Elena and Claudio Cerasi Foundation and CoopCulture, is pleased to host Fabrizio Spadini's personal exhibition, “Tempi d'accademia. From potential to crossover”, curated by Valeria Rufini Ferranti and organized by Medina Art Gallery.

Fabrizio Spadini's intensely pop and contemporary imagery, mixed with metaphysical and figurative echoes of the first half of the twentieth century, which find various points of contact within the Elena and Claudio Cerasi Collection at Palazzo Merulana.

Born in 1975, Fabrizio Spadini was born in Casorate Primo, in the province of Pavia. After a career as a freelance illustrator for advertising agencies and publishing houses, he collaborates as a concept artist with companies operating in the animation and videogames sector. In 2009 he moved to Tuscany with his family, dedicating himself to painting and his artistic career. In 2016, with the project “Oilrobots – Futuro Anteriore” at Lucca Comics, he became known to the general public: he presented icons from the Japanese animated series of the 70s and 80s inserted in atmospheres that refer to the pictorial tradition of the Tuscan Macchiaioli. From there, various exhibitions, events and exhibitions in Italy and abroad (we remember the Future Film Festival in Bologna, the Cantieri Culturali di Zisa in Palermo, the Export Gallery in Austria, the exhibition at the DeniArte Gallery in Rome, San Marino Comics, “Deus ex Machina" solo exhibition at the Belgioioso Castle in Pavia in 2021, promoted by ArteAtelier and curated by Cesare Orler with the participation of Gabriele Boni, until "LAME ROTANTI" in 2022, an exhibition organized by Medina Art Gallery Rome as an exhibition-event-outside Romics salon, with stand at the Rome Fair curated by ArteAtelier).

The curator Valeria Rufini Ferranti speaks of the pop icons in Spadini's works as "[...] silent sentinels guarding a cosmic order that is always on the verge of falling apart. And it is precisely on the thin crest of this imminent disintegration that the harmony of each work rests [...]" and again "[...] this conscious alteration feeds on the tension between real and imaginary [...] crossing series of dystopian universes with the same alienating naturalness with which the icons of pop media culture are compared to the pillars of the History of Art: Spadini in fact starts from the Tuscan Macchiaioli up to the 20th century avant-garde with Giacomo Balla, Mario Sironi and Giorgio De Chirico among all, with a connection exciting and profound with the great Masters who make up the Cerasi collection on permanent museum exhibition at Palazzo Merulana".

Exhibition included in the entrance ticket Collection + Exhibition of Palazzo Merulana | ONLINE
Full price €10.00
Reduced €8.00 (Young people under 26, adults over 65, active teachers, Cartax2 holders, Lazio Youth card holders)
Free (children and teenagers under 7, one teacher for every 10 students, one companion for every 10 people, disabled people with companion, Palazzo Merulana Pass and Palazzo Merulana Young Pass holders, ICOM members, tourist guides with a licence) Booking fee €2.00
Sunday 5 March exhibition open from 12.00 to 18.30 (last entry 18.00)