Born in Rome in 1960, Fantini has had a long and varied career in the arts, working as professional dancer, actor, photographer as well as a painter and sculptor. He spent 14 years traveling and living outside Italy, a period which also included long stays in Asia and in particular Tibet, before returning to Rome in 2000. Fantini's travels had a strong influence on his works, contributing to give them a primitif quality that often recalls ancient tribal art. With his latest works, Fantini returns to his archetypes: faceless teenagers, girls and young boys with red hats and subjects taken from nature – animals, trees, plants, insects. In these stylized figures, the absence of physiognomic features describes an internal condition rather than a biographical fact. The same yet different from painting to painting, or within the same one, these figures tell a story. But the narration, its emotional content, does not occur through the features and expressions of the face, but rather through the body: as in a kaleidoscopic game of mirrors, the vision is overturned while the world of dance emerges with light disciplined elegance, a fundamental formative stage for the artist. Fantini's works, through an elaborate layered technique composed of fabrics and paint, they combine decorative play and minimalist taste with originality. His attention to color and human interactions creates an authenticity that speaks directly to the viewer and has earned him a large following in Italy and abroad. For more than fifteen years, Fantini has been represented in Rome by the Von Buren Contemporary art gallery (formerly RvB Arts), which specializes in contemporary Italian art. Created in 2008 by English gallerist Michele von Büren, Von Buren Contemporary recently moved to Via Giulia, one of the oldest and most evocative streets in Rome. In April 2023, the gallery was proud to once again host Fantini's solo exhibition, Crossover, where the artist's new imagery met with great public success. Fantini is one of the gallery's longest-standing collaborators, who has been able to fully witness the evolution and development of the artist's style.
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