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Fab i o M od ica: T h e Defeat of A bsenc e Sicilian painter Fabio Modica is among the most passionately collected young artists of our time. His seductive work is characterized by an operatic use of color to cinematically depict the faces of hauntingly beautiful women.

Modica’s artistic virtuosity has earned him acclaim from critics, curators and collectors around the world.

Modica’s most recent collection of works included in the catalog, The Defeat of Absence, are a tour de force in which he makes manifest his mandate to avoid the fall into an anarchist, “everything is art”, construct. His blunt, luscious application of paint in a kaleidoscopic array of color presents the human visage as a topography of the soul. Fabio’s process and pictorial language rebuke vacant vocabularies that have long dominated contemporary art, and further underscore his fundamental belief that the artist should take a moral responsibility toward the recipients of their artistic creation.

L ik e a n a rtist-sceno graph e r , h e l a ys d ow n m ul t i -l a ye r e d c o a t s o f vib ra nt pa in t spread o ve r a t or t ur e d c a n v a s w i t h r i g o r o u s s pa t u la s t r ok es a s if he was “action p a i n t i n g” . F a b i o’ s c ol or s a r e t o be con sid ered as ph anto m, t h a t i s, sh e e r v i sua l sp e c t e r s de pr iv e d of a ny physi cal real i ty and , i n sof a r a s on e c a n i m a g in e – t o be d e em ed a s pure emo ti o ns ( I sa a c N e w t on ) . T h e a r t i s t ma ke s s ure tha t hi s fi gures l o o k b e yon d t h e v i e w e r ’ s g a ze b y p r o je c t in g t h e m into th e metaph ysi c a l d i m e n si on of t h e w h ol e o f t ime . . .” i n corru pt i bl e ti me” – w h i c h i s p a st , p r e se n t a n d f utu r e a t o n c e .

F a b io Modi ca’s pai n ti n g i s a k i n d of d e v ot i on , a r e v e r e n t h om a ge to “presen ce”. I t i s r oot e d i n t h e G n ost i c i de a t h a t w e a re, indeed, pri so n ers of m a t t e r – n e e d i n g som e me a n s o f lib e ra tion f ro m th e bi o l o g i c a l c on st r a i n t s of t h e h uma n s pir it .

H um a n cre ati vi ty i s o n e o f t h e t r a d i t i on a l m e a n s b y w h ic h we s lip t h e su rly bon ds o f Earth (J oh n M a ge e ) w i t h out b e n e f it o f div in e in t e rventio n. Thi s bo dy o f w or k a c t s a s a d e l i v e r y sys t e m t o f acilita te a “co mmuni o n” b e t w e e n v i e w e r s a n d t h i s t r a n s c e n de n t d im ension.

TANGERINE | 2019 MIXED MEDIA & V O L C A N I C A S H O N C ANV AS | 35 X 52 I N C HES

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P A IDI A X VI I I | 20 2 1 M IX ED M E D I A & VOLCA N I C A SH ON CANV AS 7 9 X 9 4 . 5 I N C HE S

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PAIDIA XV II | 2021 MIXED MEDIA & V OL C ANIC A S H O N C A N V A S 79 X 94.5 INCHES

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PR I S O N E R O F MA T T E R LI V | 2 0 1 9 M IX E D M E D I A & VOLCA N I C A SH ON C ANV AS 79 X 7 7 I N C H ES

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GNOSIS: FRAIL TY V I | 2021 MIXED MEDIA & V OL CANIC A S H O N C A N V A S 43 X 59 INCHES

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G N O S I S : P E A C E VI I | 2 0 2 0 MI XE D M E D I A & VO LCA N I C A SH ON C ANV AS 79 X 7 9 I N C H E S

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GNO SIS: FRAILTY VII | 2021 | MIXED MEDIA & VOLCANIC ASH ON CANVAS 59 X 35.5 INCHES

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G NOS I S : A F F E C T I ON I I | 2 0 2 0 M IX E D ME D I A & VO LCA N I C A SH ON CANV AS 28 X 2 6 I N C H E S

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“His seductive work is characterized by an operatic use of color to cinematically depict the faces of hauntingly beautiful women.”

P A IDI A X V MI XED M E D I A & VOLCA N I C A SH ON C ANV AS 79 X 79 I N C H E S

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PAIDIA XIII MI X E D ME D I A & VOLCA N I C A SH ON C ANV AS 79 X 7 9 I N C HE S

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“Profound, compelling eyes, facing the viewer; a thick, disjointed texture; a striking chromatic variance; arcane carvings emerging from rough coats of paint; vibrant, mosaic-like spatula strokes; and, as always, a mindful state of consciousness arising from a conflicted gaze.”

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G N O S I S : S O L I T UDE MI XED M E D I A & VOLCA N I C A SH ON C A N VA S | 7 9 X 1 0 8 I N CHE S

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Fabio Modica’s painting is a kind of devotion, a reverent homage to “presence”.

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The Gnosis series captures individuals experiencing a state of epiphany and self-revelation which suddenly generates a truly eye-opening emotion. The feelings explored are: wonder, oblivion, eagerness, elevation, regret, self-denial, loss, composure and liberation.

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Fabio’s process and pictorial language rebuke vacant vocabularies that have long dominated contemporary art, and further underscore his fundamental belief that the artist should take a moral responsibility toward the recipients of their artistic creation.

G N O S I S : F RA G I L I T Y I I I MI XED M E D I A & VOLCA N I C A SH ON C ANV AS 47 X 37 I N C H E S

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This body of work acts as a delivery system to facilitate a “communion” between viewers and the transcendent dimension.

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