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Robertino Fatica"The Barracks" 1970 Mixed Media Canvas Robertino Fatica LARGE B&W Abstract1970
1970
$10,000
£7,734.59
€8,805.38
CA$14,358.39
A$15,686.98
CHF 8,221.60
MX$187,307.52
NOK 104,045.12
SEK 97,019.91
DKK 65,762.15
About the Item
Robertino Fatica’s Barracks (1970) is a long, narrow painting that reads almost like a piece of architecture. At 17.5 by 122 inches, it stretches across the wall in a continuous band, bringing to mind a row of military barracks or workers’ quarters laid out side by side. The proportions alone give the work a sense of discipline and control, as if the format itself is enforcing order.
The painting is made with acrylic paint and tape on canvas. Fatica uses a spare palette of black, white, and gray, but within that limit he creates a surprising amount of variety. The surface is divided into a sequence of adjoining panels. Some are built from dense black squares, others from pale grids or scratched textures, and one section bristles with short, angled strokes that feel almost like scattered debris. Tape is used to establish sharp edges and boundaries, then paint is dragged, layered, or scumbled across those divisions. The result is a surface that feels both carefully organized and visibly worked by hand.
The title, Barracks, points toward the world outside the painting. The repeated panels suggest identical rooms or units, each one nominally the same, yet each carrying small differences and irregularities. That combination of repetition and variation hints at life inside such structures: the regimented schedules and shared routines, but also the private memories and emotions that do not fit neatly into a grid. The stark palette reinforces this sense of austerity, as if any hint of comfort or ornament has been stripped away.
What makes the work compelling is the quiet tension it holds. On one level, it is a cool abstract composition of rectangles and textures. On another, it feels like a reflection on how systems organize people, how individual experience is compressed into a series of standard units. Without resorting to overt narrative or imagery, Fatica uses scale, rhythm, and humble materials to suggest the weight of institutional space and the traces of human presence that remain inside it.This painting can be hung horizontally or vertically.
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Robertino Fatica was born in 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1970 he completed a three-year program at the Cooper School of Art in Cleveland. Following that, Fatica served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany. Upon his return to Cleveland, Fatica attended the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA), receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In 1978, Fatica received the CIA Women's Committee Scholarship for Foreign Study and Travel and volunteered in Palermo, Sicily at a Christian center providing art therapy at a women's mental hospital, and art activities with the young boys at the center.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
During my time at both the Cooper and Cleveland Institute of Art, the contemporary art movement significantly influenced the direction of my personal approach and expression, particularly the works of Frank Stella, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Clyfford Still, Joseph Albers among others. I was fortunate to study with Ed Mieczkowski, Julian Stanczak, and Clarence Van Duzer who also shaped my personal journey and my art.
- Creator:Robertino Fatica (1948, American)
- Creation Year:1970
- Dimensions:Height: 17.5 in (44.45 cm)Width: 122 in (309.88 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Rancho Santa Fe, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU516315078272
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