FABRIZIO BERTI

Italian artist known for his ironic and irreverent visual language, marked by the linear simplification of figures into striking, symbolic icons. His use of vivid, flat colours outlined with thick black lines draws clear influence from the Pop Art movement, while his passion for comics informs a unique and recognisable painting style.

Berti’s early works featured stylised characters caught in tragicomic, often surreal scenarios—chased by mouths symbolizing recurring dreams, or suspended in paradoxical encounters with death. Over time, his practice evolved toward reinterpreting historical and pop culture figures using a recurring, skeletal visual structure: a circular head, dot eyes, elongated oval nose, and minimal, slender bodies. These characters, though abstracted, remain recognizable through precisely rendered symbolic details—beards, uniforms, medals—executed with miniature-like accuracy.

A hallmark of Berti’s figures is their identical nose—a kind of visual signature—while mouths are notably absent, referencing earlier works in which they were expressions of fear and obsession. His portraits are not literal but rather decontextualized interpretations, stripped of ideology and transformed into modern icons or “tags.”

Though widely appreciated and collected privately, his work has also sparked critique and censorship, underscoring its provocative edge.

Fabrizio Berti lives and works in Torcegno (Trentino, Italy).

2023

• A World of Superheroes. From Myth to Modern Man, Museo Civico, Asolo (TV)

2022

• Seeing Through Art, Zamagni Gallery, Rimini

• Solo Exhibition, curated by Alice Zannoni, Fideuram, Casalecchio di Reno (BO)

• The Upside-Down World of Fabrizio Berti, Zamagni Gallery, Rimini

2021

• Painters of Torcegno: Yesterday and Today, Casa dell’Ecomuseo del Lagorai

2020

• Positive Assembly, Zamagni Gallery, Rimini

• Play Boy, curated by Francesco d’Andrea, Civico 7, Borgo Valsugana (TN)

• Summer Solstice, Zamagni Gallery, Rimini

• I'm Still Here. SetUp to be Continued, Autostazione, Bologna

2019

• One Year Opening, Spazio 8a/10/12, Portogruaro

• Contemporary... in the Ideal City, Polveriera Garzoni, Palmanova (UD)

• Hic et Nunc, Contempo Gallery, Pergine Valsugana (TN)

• Nimium ne crede colori, curated by A. Bosio, Castello di Castellaro Lagusello (MN)

• Superheroes. Iconographic Exercises, Contempo Gallery, Pergine Valsugana

• Woman. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Lagorai Nature Center, Torcegno (TN)

2018

• 3+10 Prize, International Cultural Association Atelier 3+10, Mestre (VE)

• Icon, curated by Matteo Chincarini, Art Luxury Gallery, Milan

• Face(&)Book. 100 Profiles of Fabrizio Berti, curated by A. Minati, Spazio Klien & Palazzo Ceschi, Borgo Valsugana (TN)

2017–2006

• Numerous solo and group exhibitions including:

  • Killing Pasolini, Galgarte, Bergamo

  • Portrait-Attractions, Galleria 1 Stile, Mantua

  • Historical Tag, Palazzo della Regione, Trento

  • Fear, Pleasure, Power, Spazio Klien, Borgo Valsugana

  • Pop Dictators, Antica Pieve, Grigno

  • Finalist Works Celeste Prize 2006, Marino Marini Museum, Florence

  • Korrespondenz, Nikolaikirche, Freiberg, Germany