Fabio Inverni Italian, b. 1968

Fabio Inverni, hyper-realist painter, known for his trompe l'oeil on canvas, was born in Florence in 1968. He lives and works in Poggio a Caiano. He is the son of Francesco Inverni, painter and teacher of Ornament and Figure at the Art School of Florence. Thanks to his father, Fabio Inverni developed an innate passion for self-taught painting, frequenting galleries, art clubs and various important exhibitions during his childhood. Although he lives in art, in an intimate and familiar sense he will later approach painting. He attended the Industrial Technical Institute in Prato and graduated in 1988. After which he moved to Rome and worked at Faro Disegno as a fabric designer. He remained there until his father's early death in 1991. This bitter reality corresponded to a realization, for which Inverni decided to approach painting. Influenced by his father's paintings, his first works arise from a personal interpretation of genre scenes, placed in a completely dreamlike and unfinished context. In 1992 he frequented the artists of the historic "Saletta Ambra" in Poggio a Caiano, and held his first solo exhibition there in the same year. His still lifes and landscapes emerge from the canvas with the "matter" of which they are made and the light is crepuscular and diaphanous, everything is melancholic and the contours of the objects are crumbled like a memory. The entire first period of Inverni is projected towards melancholy and memory.
In 1995 he went to the United States, where he worked on several private commissions and exhibited in personal exhibitions at the Herr Chambliss Fine Art Gallery in Shreve Port (Louisiana) in the Casa d' Arte Gallery. In 1998 he was present at the Europ'Art fair in Geneva and in the same year he held a solo exhibition at the Arte Renaca gallery in Viña del Mar in Chile. In 2003, in addition to personal exhibitions in Italy, he was invited to exhibit, together with six Italian artists, at the Grace Museum in Abilene, Texas and held a solo exhibition at the Leonard Fine Art Gallery in Hot Spring, Arkansas, where he was awarded the honorary title of Honorary Ambassador for the Arts of Arkansas. In the same year he was also present in Belgium in Knokke at the D'Haudrecy Art Gallery. In 1999 he is back in the United States in Hot Spring at the Talbot Engman Gallery in Arkansas and in Shreve Port in Louisiana. Then in Madrid at the Nuevo Grial Gallery. In 2001 he held two solo shows in Texas and North Carolina, and was present in an important collective for the Poggio a Caiano – Charlottesville twinning, which began at the Scuderie Medicee in Poggio a Caiano and ended in 2002 at the McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville, Virginia .
2004 was a turning point for Inverni: in addition to landscape and still lifes, artistic experimentation moved towards hyperrealism, while respecting its identifying canons. Melancholy makes room for Inverni's artistic maturation and his works become more eloquent. The narrative is aimed at the emotions of the individual spectator, who finds an intimate meaning within the silence of these paintings. The non-word that is transmitted to us by the precariousness of these painted sheets has within it the fragility of man, of society which sometimes closes itself in a childish world, to find a bit of that lost naivety in the disorder. In 2005 he was present at a solo exhibition in the castle of Santa Margherita Ligure. In 2006 he was invited to the Third National Biennial of Contemporary Sacred Art in Pistoia, curated by the critic Giampaolo Trotta and participated for the first time in the Verona Art Verona Fair. In 2007 he exhibited in Boca Raton, Florida. From 2007 to 2010 he was present in many national and foreign fairs: Macef (Milan), Fiera Arte Padova (Padua), Art Verona (Verona), N.Y. expo (New York), Düsseldorf Fair (Germany) and in important national collective exhibitions including: The Museum of Contemporary Art of Monreale (Palermo), the Rocca di Cento (Cento-Ferrara), the L.U.C.C.A Museum of Contemporary Art ( Lucca), the Medieval Keep in Prato. Precisely in 2010 he began a project, concluded in 2011, which led him to exhibit with other artists in important public buildings, including the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino and the Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea of Aci Castello (Catania), which then ended in Milan . In 2010 Inverni was selected, together with other artists, for the creation of a "traveling" public collective show of 50 painters 50 singers which was present: at the Palagio di parte Guelfa in Florence and at Palazzo Cardi in Cortona (Arezzo) which ended in 2011, again in 2011 he was selected among the Italian artists at the Venice Biennale which ended in Turin at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni. In 2013, for the twenty years of his career, he was invited to exhibit his works in Hot Springs, and in San Francisco he took part in group exhibitions in various galleries. In 2015 it is part of the collective Vitamine (Carlo Palli Archive) inaugurated in Florence at the Museo Del Novecento and continued at