Fabio Novembre

Fabio Novembre is one of those 'young' Italian designers that has distinguished himself for his strong personal vision and for his particular cultural awareness, perhaps more so than many others. That what distinguishes him, makes him either loved or hated. He indulges in this game, enjoys playing with his carefully constructed character, skillfully tailors his public costume of the social provocateur that he is.
He defines himself in the following way: "From 1966 I respond to the name Fabio Novembre. From 1992 I respond to the title of Architect. From 2004 I respond to "daddy". I cut out some space from the emptiness by blowing air bubbles, i give sharp pins as presents because i don't want want to brag. My lungs are soaked with the perfume of the places I've breathed in and when I go into hyperventilation it's just because I want to stay breathless for a while. Like pollen, I allow myself to be transported by the wind, confident I can seduce everything around me. I want to breathe until I suffocate. I want to love until I die." From the people that inspired him most he mentions Carmelo Bene. That same Carmelo Bene of "I'm a work of art" and of Our Lady of the Turks, a fellow countryman for that matter. He moves confidently though literary, artistic and cinematographic references, he shifts from Greenaway to Newton, fron Ingres to Beckett. This type of multimedia or hypertext approach when transformed into a practical research, produces a sort of minimalism that continues to be appealing, with a strong baroque and visionary touch; neobaroque, as he would say. The other essential component in his work is the concept of love in the broadest sense, sex and feelings, flesh and thought. It's not a coincidence that the symbol of his studio is a small cupid. The female figure is one of his main sources of inspiration, and the thing he desires most is that his creations/creatures succeed above all in giving pleasure. Neobaroque, love, quotations and personalization; all the right ingredients for a formal interpretation filled with excess, a visual overload as well as pure flaunt. Visual overload that is achieved through multiplication (like in the Org table made with approximately 170 legs, or like the mosaic made of millions of tiles, or again like the deco patterns that represent the true reoccurring element in his work) or other times through enlargement (used for example in the pixel reproduction of the origin of the world that covers the ceiling of the Divina discotheque, or in the slightly surreal vase-bench "+13 2007", or in the Fellini-like "exterior for interior"). Fabio Novembre, thanks to his talent in demonstrating his strong point of view and to the way he presents himself, is destined to become, if he already hasn't, a true 'class' act.