Disegni da paura

"Someone – who knows who – once said: 'Art must be ambiguous. And it must contain a virus.' There you go. Fausto Gilberti's works produce this kind of effect; you come out contaminated. The symbolic evocations, which hurl you into enigmatic landscapes of the soul. Those dense ink strokes; or chaotic storms, drowned forms, beasts. The disorienting processions of characters that eye you with questioning looks from their desolate lands..." — Sacha Naspini

Big, enormous eyes, stylized figures in black and white, slender, reduced to the minimum in their lines yet with a great visual impact. In these ink-on-paper drawings, Fausto Gilberti gifts us, with his unmistakable style, a procession of frightened yet always amazed and curious characters, where the technique helps to strengthen and amplify the theme of the drawings.

Disegni da Paura (Scary Drawings) is a must-have collection for fans of the artist, known for his essential, biting, and ironic strokes. A book with unpublished works, it also gathers the ninety drawings displayed in the eponymous exhibition at the Wizard Gallery in Milan, from November 2024 to January 2025.