NUR NICHTS LAUES!

Nur nichts Laues! (Nothing Tepid!), solo exhibition of Fabio Romano (1988), accompanied by a text by Lorenz Ecker. Through a body of large-scale works, the artist transforms the pictorial surface into an ecosystem of tensions, where cultural memory and scientific urgency intertwine within a stratified and radical visual narrative.

The exhibition title, Nur nichts Laues!, is an exhortation to density and commitment, a programmatic rejection of both chromatic and conceptual indifference. Fabio Romano conceives painting not as mere representation, but as an ontological medium that connects ancestral origins, from cave engravings to Abstract Expressionism, with the anxieties of the present. In his works, the human being and the natural environment are bound together by a mycelial network of impulses: a structure of subterranean exchange in which the painterly gesture acts as a probe.

Romano works with the precision of a social surgeon, analysing the tissues of our political and climatic reality in order to reveal their internal frictions. Adopting the logic of a compound eye, Romano dismantles any singular perspective in favour of complex mosaics. Within this visual thickness, figurative elements and abstract fields of colour coexist, compelling the viewer to continuously renegotiate their distance from the painting.