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Fabian was born in
Buenos Aires in 1967 and brought up in the small but dynamic Argentinian
city of Campana 50 miles outside the capital. From the age of nine he
felt at home holding a paintbrush, producing surprisingly mature
portraits of family and friends. His extraordinary parents played a huge
part in his creative development; his mother was artistic and
imaginative, while his father was a fascinating figure - well known
locally both to the people and the police as a somewhat clandestine
character with a hand in various business dealings that operated after
dark in the nightclubs and on the streets of the city.
His fathers activities meant that the young Fabian was exposed to an
interesting cast of characters, from handsome men who lived their lives
on the edge to women who, as he himself puts it, could seduce a man
simply by lighting a cigarette. Add to this a world of sultry and
glamourous tango dancers, flamenco guitarists and gypsy musicians, and
Fabians stunning paintings fall into context as atmospheric
representations of forbidden sensuality and unnamed desires.
At the age of 16 he lost his mother, and at 19 his father followed,
leading Fabian bereft. His search for an anchor in his life led him to
the pursuit of self knowledge through martial arts, and through this
search he met the second great influential figure of his life who was to
become his Karate
master. His exceptional skill at Karate introduced discipline into a
life which had been ruled by passion and instinct, and encouraged Fabian
to take charge of his own future. He decided to leave Argentina and
travelled around Brazil, Italy and Japan before settling in Los Angeles
in Spring 2001. It was here that his work was noticed by the official
artistic establishment, and before long he was holding sell out
exhibitions and publishing his work to great critical acclaim.
Although he admires various schools of art including the Impressionists,
Fabian is reluctant to have his work categorised. It is perhaps best to
refer to his own description - Emotionalism - which best sums up his
uniquely expressive style. Having experimented extensively with
watercolour, tempura and acrylics he settled some years ago on oils as
his preferred medium, as he believes they allow him to achieve the
atmosphere of compressed energy and passion within his work, and allows
his beautifully described figures to live and breath on the canvas.
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