This is the first solo exhibition in a museum to focus on Louis Fratino (1993, Annapolis, Maryland), an American painter who reimagines traditional genres such as portrait, landscape, still life, and nude through a queer lens. The works on view are inspired by art history, Italian literature, and the artist’s travels through Italy.
The exhibition Louis Fratino. Satura explores the painter’s relationship with Italy through a selection of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from 2017 to today. It offers an intimate journey into the artist’s world, moving between domestic scenes and sweeping landscapes, homoerotic intimacy and everyday gestures. Fratino presents a universe of same-sex relationships rarely portrayed with such openness in art history. His works draw on the Italian landscape, the writings of Sandro Penna, Patrizia Cavalli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Mario Mieli, and dialogue with artists such as Renato Guttuso, Filippo De Pisis, and the Scuola di Roma.
