A space for art and for youngs

 

There is the  atmosphere of the great events when I meet  in the Galleria La Nuvola in via Margutta  Fabio Falsaperla, despite the limited time available because of work for the exhibition of Emilio Leofreddi "The breath of the World "to be held in a few days at the Vittoriano complex, he finds a little space for this interview. I understand his state of mind because, they are the first art gallery to exhibit in such a structure.

Tell me about Fabio Falsaperla and his evolution from artist to gallery owner.

When I was teaching art education and painting, around '70s, I had the opportunity and the luck to meet artists like Schifano, Festa, Angels, Lombardo, Ceroli. I knew them by colleagues but I was,let's say, little. I had a studio in the Via del Pellegrino and they said: "We're going to find Fabietto" I was like a mascot having ten or fifteen years younger than them. They were my idols and had obtained their experimental techniques in that period of complete transformation, we are talking about the late '60s, and they belonged to the famous "School of Piazza del Popolo. Years were "hot", in '68 I attended the first year of the Faculty of Architecture, I say no more, and I found myself next to these characters that were even more vibrant atmosphere that is breathed. Then at some point I started to sell their works and also my own and found to be a good seller, in fact, gained much more in this way.

 

This discovery was therefore marked a turning point in your professional and artistic activity.

Of course. In the late 70's changed my life and I started with Gregorian gallery, where I organized several exhibitions including one dedicated to Tano Festa at the end of 86 just before he desapperaed in January '87. Later I landed on a Margutta and working together with Professor Calvesi, I realized "Art and Film Artist," an extraordinary exhibition where we have collected all the artists of the School of People's Square and then at night the movie of Schifano , Festa, Angeli. It was a great success by audiences and critics. So I started to interest all those artists put a little aside as Cesare Tacchi and its upholstery, Renato Mambor and Lombardo's typical chalks . In other words, I pulled them out of that obscurity in which they were unjustly finished.

 

We could say that you are specialized in artists from the 60s.

Exactly, and this led me to be, for the Guardia di Finanza and Carabinieri, a CTU (Technical Consultant (ndr)) because they are interested to know if the works in their possession are true or false. This is something that gives me honor because I know deeply the work of these artists as Schifano and Angeli were massacred by the counterfeiters.

 

Going back to your last exposure, we shold mention the Black and White show that ended before the summer.

Yes that was another show that has attracted much interest from the public because we have, Nicoletta and I, to create a very balanced, very hard, among historians now consecrated as Ceroli, Fabio Mauri, Tacchi and young people . Without wishing sin of presumption, I will say that our ability has been able to dock right in the works of the great harmony with those of young people carried out  ages away from each other.

 

Meanwhile Maria Nicoletta Gargari arrived and took the opportunity to ask her a couple of questions.

How was this collaboration between her and Fabio Falsaperla?

I come from the art world and in my work experience there is a collaboration of Finarte years, the auction house in Milan, which has its headquarter in Rome. One day, walking through the via del Babuino,  I met Fabio and jokingly talked about the possibility of working with him to help organize a trade show or some show. Since the very beginning we realized that there was going to work together and work together on the betting, so they are almost two years that we should continue this partnership that has led us to create exhibits like Giosetta Fioroni, Black and White and now install the  Emilio Leofreddi's exhibition at the Vittoriano.

Emilio Leofreddi, from what I understand, is one of the young artists that you are promoting with great enthusiasm and energy.

Yes, he is one of our most formidable challenges and in the exhibition "The breath of the world" that is about to start entirely new presentation of the works carried out on Indian tents. We can say about him that he is a very interesting artist who lives most of his time in India and is to propose something that has to do with things that concern us today: the consequences of globalization, climate change, the  different use transports. Emilio makes us reflect on the speed of our world looking for answers to those three classic questions of who we are, where we come from and where we are going. During the opening day at the Vittoriano there will be the presence of Acquaviva who is a great composer who works in symbiosis with the works of Emilio Leofreddi, and we will have a mime who will perform in something that we ignore almost everything.