Camillo Fait

Studio
Via Sangro, 7
20132 Milan - Italy
Phone: +39 2 26149541

Horses in the Moor, 1989
Oil on Canvas 240x140

Quick, rich of energy, deep into the quest for the detail, Camillo Fait does not renounce to represent his characters a little veiled with a sort of melancholy physiognomy. Themes, impressions, attitudes, indicate a sensitiveness which does not stop on the picture surface, but which draws from it a more intense and pondered representation. It is absolutely manifest: the painter follows his nomad hand and controls it with all the pleasure that virtuosity is able to offer in these cases. But its "doing it soon" does not limit itself to ability. So, his small women, caressed by violets, yellows, ultramarine blue, variously mingled up to the complex and tender modulation of green, show themselves as dancing Hours, characters of an imaginary space populated with benevolent muses, pointing the right way of the expressive balance.

They say that one day Hercules was at the famous crossroads of the "virtue" way and "vice" way. We all know that sooner or later we will have to make this fundamental choice ourselves. I believe that Fait had to make it too. And I imagine his prompt, serene, immediate and perhaps thoughtless answer: for persons of his kind the "vice" way is almost naturally precluded, because his life happiness has the timbre of spontaneity, and, I would say, of a childish innocence, in every circumstance, even the most "cursed" one. The value of his expressive motivation lies in this, in the need to narrate, in a fable of lines and colours, the adventures of his sensitiveness. It is also for this reason that the versatile hand gains a hold with extreme sincerity and with the spontaneity of a rhythm already been set by the sentimental reaction directly suggested by the "seen things". An easy painting derives from it, because it is the congenial transcription of an interior rhythm, and of a reconciled armony of "soul" and "form". I think Fait could never do without "his" painting, because it really reflexes an innermost way of being, and, consequently, of feeling life. From this drop of authentic emotion it summarizes a poetic value that, being such, involves us and persuades us.

Duccio Trombadori

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