Since the beginning of his artistic career has been inverting the alleged reliability of eyewitness testimony with minimal structures capable of generating suggestive plays of shadows and lights which if observed from pre- cise angles or at certain times of the day, turn themselves into images. These visions, which are suspended like mirages on the point of disappearing, substitute the sensitive body of the work with an immaterial emanation that represents its purpose and most authentic essence, subverting the usual hierarchy between reality and illu- sion. Even if what is tangible does not seem at first sight to relate to what is perceived at the sensory level, the effectiveness of the art work derives precisely from this discrete hardware matrix that bears the sophisticated mathematical and scientific competence that allows its perceptual functioning.
Fabrizio Corneli (1958) was born in Florence, Italy. He has exhibited in various public and private venues in Italy and abroad including: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (1979); Villa Romana, Florence; Maryland Institute, Baltimore; XI Quadriennale di Roma; P.A.C. Milan (1986); Villa Celle, Santomato Pistoia (1988); Palau de la Gen- eralitat in Valenciana, Valencia (1990); Museo de arte contemporáneo Sofía Imber, Caracas (1992); Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus; Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna; Rocca Paolina, Perugia (1997); Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo (1999); Palau de la Virreina, Bar- celona (2000); Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo (2001); Villa Medicea La Màgia, Quarrata, Pistoia; Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena; MAN, Nuoro (2006); Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt (2012); Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence (2013); Sharjah Art Museum UAE (2014); Museo della città, Rimini; Torre degli Zuccaro and Torre di Sant’Alò, Mantova; Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Madrid (2016), curated by the Studio Trisorio; Centro Pecci, Prato; MAMbo, Bologna (2017). He has realized permanent installations in the cities of Pistoia (1997), Sélestat (1999), Kobe (2001, 2007), Anderlecht (2006), Prato (2000, 2014), L’Aquila (2011, 2015), Traunstein (2020), Tainan City (2021), Doha (2021). He has been working with Studio Trisorio since 2002.