Ivano Fabbri Biography
Ivano Fabbri (1936 - ), born in Ferrara in 1936, became a Fabbriano at the beginning of the 1960s. His stage name has accompanied him to this day. He divides his time and work between Bologna and Vienna. From the beginning of his career he was held in high regard by the German public, so much so that the painter Kokoschka was not the only great painter to notice him. A few years earlier the artist met Emilio Vedova in Venice who expressed the same admiration. He tackles the "Actionem Aktionismus" period of the 1960s together with artists such as Günter Brus, Arnulf Rainer, Ludwig Attersee, the "Gruppo Sintesis Informale" which he joined in 1968 with Carlos Mensa, Rafael Canogar, Luis Feito, until his return in Italy with the exhibition, in 1974, at the Visual Activities Center of the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, where he exhibited again in the following years. In 1977 he was included in the Historical Archive of Contemporary Arts of the Venice Biennale. Other solo exhibitions see him as the protagonist at Palazzo Barberini in Rome (1984), Palazzi Pacucci in Grosseto and Guasco in Alessandria (1985), as well as Palazzo Lanfranchi in Pisa. In 1984 he was awarded the prestigious Joan Mirò Prize of Barcelona and in the same year he exhibited at the International Center of Contemporary Art in Paris. In all these years his exhibitions have taken place in various exhibition centres: from Warsaw, to Bucharest, to Ploudiv (Bulgaria), to Geneva, to Monaco, Frankfurt, to Swansea (England) and to Sarajevo, Belgrade, Skopjie, and Monte Carlo. In addition to Moscow, Krasnodar, Tokyo, Barcelona, Paris, Los Angeles. Monographic exhibitions of the Ferrarese artist were held in Chicago, New York and Granada. In 1989 he was awarded the Guercino d'Oro Award by the city of Cento (Fe). He received the gold medal for art from Mexico City in 1991, three years later the 1st Viviani Prize in Pisa and the 1st National Prize in the same city in 2003.
