Thought from space time

Facchini has always been a sculptor, ever since his studies at the Venice Academy. Sculpture permeates every artifact produced in his studio in Fano, as is fully demonstrated by the circularity of the elements he depicts. Symbolic signs and allegorical figures always combine to form a plastic concert, a chromatic chorus, of singular eloquence in the round, even when entwined on only one plane. Facchini creates refined sculptures, open to their surroundings, without inflating them into ostentatious monuments. He prefers hermetic encounters. Equally circular is the geometric construction of his internationally renowned jewels. Which not only embrace wrists pulsating with life, but also envelop the ear and chest like convex structures, a convexity already so valued in De Chirico's paintings.

In them, Facchini sets in motion a flow of precious stones and metals, arched over shields of light. The power of essence makes their compositions all the more exemplary the more essential they are.

For Einstein, physics had to be beautiful. For Facchini, beauty must be physical. And what can be said of his medals, round by definition? Well, they are miniature, yet they often remind us of megaliths.

In their small scale, they synthesize a theme or a field of activity through a symbolism that renews signs from the Egyptians to Futurism, from the Enlightenment to the Modernists. We earthlings have always seen the starry skies and the universe as celestial spheres. Now cosmologists tell us that the universe is flat. Yet in Facchini’s goldsmithing planes we see spheres. This is how the imaginal language of Facchini’s artifacts should be understood: as a vascular fabric of pulsating interweavings; within its eminently plastic language, which becomes tactile to the point of urging us to touch it, chromatic gleams circulate that are painting for the eyes. Between sculpted signs and repoussé colors there is a heart that beats together with the vision. This is why, after having written several times about his art—so generous in inventions and echoes—I declare that Giorgio Facchini is a great donor of symbols, lifebloods of humanity and beauty.

Written by Tommaso Trini – Art Critic