Niccolò Fornari

Niccolò Fornari (Rome, 1996) is a non-figurative visual artist whose pictorial research also extends to textual art.

His practice develops around an introspective investigation, focused on the analysis of his own emotional flows and inner oscillations, which he likes to call “andamenti.” These states are expressed through the interaction between sign, handwriting and color, in a gestural and textual painting, which alternates density and rarefaction in a continuous dialogue between the conscious and the unconscious.

After graduating from Liceo Linguistico Europeo in 2015, he initially approached architecture and fashion design, experiences that contribute to the construction of his visual language, marked by a sense of structure and composition.

In fact, the design dimension remains a constant element, even if translated into a pictorial key, in the construction of his realities.

In 2024 he graduated in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, under the guidance of professors Giuseppe Di Lorenzo and Sergio Sarra. His thesis is dedicated to the analysis of the work of three masters of Abstract Expressionism whom he considers referents of his own artistic path: Willem de Kooning, Emilio Vedova and Franz Kline, with an in-depth study of their radical commitment to a painting that transcends the boundaries of the figurative, opening up new expressive and communicative possibilities.

In December 2024 he inaugurated his first solo exhibition at the Fiorano exhibition space, part of the Gallerja directed by Alessandro Boncompagni Ludovisi, acura by Ofelia Sisca. In the same year he participated in the YICCA - International Contest of Contemporary Art, expanding his visibility in the artistic context.

His work continues to develop in a constant tension between impulse and reflection, between writing and gesture, keeping alive a research that sinks into the personal to open up to a universal dimension.