Luciano Fabro
Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen
Luciano Fabro is a highly original artist who makes no compromises and whose work stands apart from anything else happening in art. If he is a sculptor, he is like no other contemporary sculptor; pieces like “Italy”, “Feet”, “Hatstands”, and “Gems” constitute isolated worlds that are like no other work, and even dissimilar to each other. Fabro is no avant-garde artist; even if his work involves a reorientation of modern sculpture, his whole being is grounded in the history of art. His thought reflects the classical tradition continually, and the spatial concepts of Giotto and Correggio—the