Tommaso Fattovich

The Barbarians Of California (Abstract Painting)

2025

Tommaso Fattovich is an Italian abstract painter who deploys the Surrealist strategy of automatism to create raw, layered, emotive works that convey feelings of desolation and decay. He lives and works in Delray Beach, Florida. Works by Fattovich are in many private collections.Recent exhibitions include the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Art Boca Raton – International Art Fair, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Miami (Red Dot Art Fair, Art Wynwood, Eighteen: The Most Influential Emerging Artists - Blink Group Fine Art Gallery), Los Angeles (Downtown LA Art Show), and New York (AB Gallery). Fattovich calls his style Abstract Punk. He deliberately rejects traditional techniques in lieu of brut art strategies. Painting with a mixture of oils, acrylics and other mediums on large-scale canvases, he uses his hands and other tools, like plaster trowels and forks, adding rough textures and dimensions to his surfaces. “I use whatever I can use to make that mark,” he says. “It’s not even a brush stroke.” His compositions evolve according to a subliminal process in which he responds viscerally to the colors, layers, lines and shapes, coaxing each composition along until it reveals itself to him as being finished. This, he says, is the most rewarding part of the artistic process: discovering the moment when the work has become “what is was meant to be” then connecting with a viewer who responds to the work.