Alfonso Fratteggiani Bianchi (Perugia, Italy, 1952) lives and works in Rocca S. Apollinare. During his youth, he lived for long periods between Rome and Florence, and later he moved to Cologne, Germany, where he completed his studies. During these years, he had a deep musical training, a field that will have a very decisive influence on his later plastic work.

An artist with a tremendously reserved character, he began painting in the late 1990s. The first pictorial works, made on conglomerate, did not satisfy the final result desired by Fratteggiani. Through various explorations, serene stone - a gray sandstone used in architecture and sculpture, especially in the Umbria and Tuscany areas - became the artist's favorite medium. This stone has an adequate degree of porosity that allows enhancing the qualities of color and investigating the possibilities of its manipulation, through constant research on the way in which each pigment behaves. For Fratteggiani, his work is characterized by the incessant search for color tone, and the materiality of color: "which is itself very sensitive to environmental alterations and manipulations" *.

* Conversation: Alfonso Fratteggiani Bianchi and Anthony Molino copyright © ️ January 2020