Satura

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol at Centro Pecci in Prato, Italy, Louis Fratino. Satura presents works by the US painter Louis Fratino centered on his relationship with Italy—one of the artist's main cultural contexts of reference, and a perspective through which to view both his artistic and his personal experience. His paintings, drawings, etchings, and sculptures evoke the landscapes, people, and social scenes familiar to him, and imbue them with intense and erotically charged atmospheres. Essays by Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Giorgio Di Domenico, Filippo Bosco, Chiara Portesine, and Michele Bertolino elaborate on these themes.
Satura includes artworks from the last decade as well as numerous new works, providing a thorough investigation of the artist's practice. The title comes from the Latin term satura lanx, meaning a dish filled with fruits intended for the gods, from which has descended a literary genre characterized by a variety of styles. In Italian, satura means "saturated" or "filled." Both the Latin and the Italian meanings resonate well with the richness and formal feast of Fratino's art.