Fabio Romano
NUR NICHTS LAUES!
“Nur nichts Laues!” (Nothing Tepid!), solo exhibition of Fabio Romano (1988), accompanied by a text by Lorenz Ecker.
Through a body of large-scale works, the artist transforms the pictorial surface into an ecosystem
of tensions, where cultural memory and scientific urgency intertwine within a stratified and radical
visual narrative.
The exhibition title, Nur nichts Laues!, is an exhortation to density and commitment, a
programmatic rejection of both chromatic and conceptual indifference. Fabio Romano conceives
painting not as mere representation, but as an ontological medium that connects ancestral origins
—from cave engravings to Abstract Expressionism—with the anxieties of the present.
In his works, the human being and the natural environment are bound together by a “mycelial
network” of impulses: a structure of subterranean exchange in which the painterly gesture acts as
a probe. Romano works with the precision of a social surgeon, analysing the “tissues” of our
political and climatic reality in order to reveal their internal frictions.
Adopting the logic of a “compound eye,” Romano dismantles any singular perspective in favour of
complex mosaics. Within this visual “thickness,” figurative elements and abstract fields of colour
coexist, compelling the viewer to continuously renegotiate their distance from the painting.
