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Born in Rome, he studied cinematography in Cinecittá and Buenos Aires, he dedicated himself to photography for several decades, excelling in food photography for major agencies and brands throughout Latin America, in parallel to his activity in photography, his pictorial vein emerged in the 80's with the sculptor Gyula Kosice and the painter Rogelio Polesello, he exhibited in Buenos Aires at the Alicia Brandy Art Gallery, in Arte Fedro, Museo de Arte Moderno, Centro El Dorrego, Espacio de arte Juan Cavallero,
Fadigati has dedicated his life to advertising photography, with technical and creative developments that reached a great multifaceted production, which today is reflected in his work, in which each finding provokes a new and articulated intensity of responses for the observer.
Carlo Fadigati has been working with images since 1963. He studied cinematography in Rome and at the Asociación de Cine Experimental de Buenos Aires.
He has made productions abroad and throughout Argentina, won awards from the Círculo de Creativos Argentinos, and has worked extensively for magazines such as Cuisine & Vins, Vogue Arg., Gente, and gastronomy books for renowned chefs such as Gato Dumas, Francis Mallman, Jean Pierre Boundox, among others.
He was awarded the Pirámide de Plata prize for the best photographer of the year 1999 by the Fundación Académica de Artes Visuales.
Critics highlight his ability to persuade the viewer and his precision in the handling of techniques at the service of ideas, as his artistic contribution to all his works. His images are requested by the most important international and national advertisers and agencies for being permanently at the forefront of techniques and creative resources.
Buenos Aires, September 2005. presents his first digital work UNDERPIX, a journey through cyberspace". A surrealistic search into the depths of the digitally manipulated image, creating a bridge between traditional artistic development and new digital tendencies.
Underpix comprises a series of works with a distinctly cybernetic profile, supported on cotton canvas in different sizes. Although the origin of my works is in my professional and life essence, which is photography, I understood that there comes a moment in the creative process when this ceases to be important. In this way, each work that I develop takes on its own identity and invites us to dig into the surprising world of digital units. Detection, discovery, exhumation, I feel that they provoke a new invention and open up, from my dynamic, other dimensions of visual thought". Carlo Fadigati comments.
Venturing along this path, Fadigati achieves a result that is not accidental but entirely intentional. Each of his works conveys the passion of his Roman origin. One can see in his digital work the projection of an archaeological researcher, who, anticipating his own development, presumes in it the manifestation of the discovery. The artist takes his photographic training and with it digs into a tiny fragment of the image to penetrate what it contains, further in, further down, digging into the meanderings of the pixels, tenaciously and deeply, until he creates his work. In it, spatiality is strengthened in the graphic image, quasi-pictorial, of chromatic-morphological interaction, in which the planes are an instrument where he implants the sum of the images in constant movement, which advance, turn, go backwards, without any solution of continuity.
He presents another creative facet with acrylic paint, a series of drawings on cardboard with an abstract figurative sense, everyday and easy to read images, portraits and bodies in action transmitting rhetorical or totally imaginary messages for the observer.
Simple lines that form a breakdown of the latent image inside.
There is a story behind each of my drawings, each detail is a movement, a cry, a thought.
Works in acrylic on canvas, in cubist style and others in geometry are his most common works, navigating in different colour palettes.
Sitges 2021.