COLOURSCAPES
YEAR 2016
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TYPOLOGY artwork
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STATUS ongoing
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YEAR 2016 〰️ TYPOLOGY artwork 〰️ STATUS ongoing 〰️
ARCHITECTURE The “Architecture” series explores the relationship between nature and the built environment through the language of colour, form and proportion. Geometric shapes, often reduced to their most essential expression as simple lines, interact with dense fields of vivid colour that define the pictorial space. These elements are deliberately combined in ways that challenge the conventional chromatic associations of architecture and design, creating tensions between structure and surface. Drawing from fragments of real landscapes, architectural plans and observed details of the constructed environment, the works translate these references into an abstract visual vocabulary in which colour becomes the primary subject. The result is an exploration of pure colour, developed through variations and applied to a vision of landscape that moves between the natural and the built. For Tommaso Fantoni, this practice also becomes a way to reflect, or to momentarily suspend his daily engagement with imagining space, whether realized or in the process of becoming.
INDECISIONS This series presents new works from the so-called “Split or Indecisive Paintings”. The intention is to explore, through colour, the ambiguous nature of the human condition and its ongoing confrontation with one of its deepest states: the necessity of making choices, constantly and inevitably, even in choosing not to choose. The presence of a central opening or fracture interrupts the pictorial surface, evoking a moment of tension and suspension - a symbolic threshold between possibilities. Colour becomes the medium through which this inner conflict is expressed, suggesting that every decision implies separation, transformation and awareness of an alternative path that remains unseen.
MASTER The individual paintings, known as “Master”, symbolically gather all the others, summarising their colours once each work is completed. Conceived as a visual synthesis of the process, these paintings bring together chromatic fragments from the different series into a single, balanced composition. In this sense, the “Master” works act as a point of convergence within the exhibition, where the multiplicity of colours, surfaces and rhythms finds unity. The density and layering of colour generate a sense of depth, as each tone interacts with the others, creating subtle contrasts and visual tensions. They stand as both a conclusion and a reflection, transforming the accumulation of colours into a cohesive and harmonious pictorial field.
HORIZONS consists of works composed of multiple canvases divided into nine parts. Each piece unfolds as a modular composition, suggesting places and moments that form a sequence reminiscent of a landscape seen through fragments. The colours are drawn from nature, evoking atmospheres of distant locations or specific times of day, from soft morning tones to more intense hues of sunset and sky. Rather than depicting a defined place, the works recall the memory of natural horizons, where colour conveys space, distance and light. Through the dialogue between the panels, a visual rhythm emerges, inviting the viewer to move across the surface as if observing a landscape slowly changing with time and perspective.
