12 SEP until 25 OCT 2025
Opening – 11 SEP 2025, 6-10 pm

Second opening in the artist’s presence – 12 SEP 2025, 6-8 pm

Galerie Neu is pleased to announce “La scorza”, Louis Fratino’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The New York based artist will be presenting new terracotta sculptures, bas-reliefs as well as bronze sculptures transposing his distinct visual language into various materialities, textures and scales. While Louis Fratino initiated his first experiments with terracotta sculptures and bas reliefs in 2019, during a residency in Albissola, Italy—a town famed for its ceramic traditions and clay-rich landscape -, he will be presenting for the first time bronze sculptures. 

Louis Fratino makes paintings, drawings and sculptures from specific memories and art historical references. While drawing heavily on American and European Modernism, book illustration, and antiquity, Fratino has developed a practice portraying the body, interiors and landscape. The potential for the immediate as a source of discovery is revealed through close looking at details of daily life.

Louis Fratino (b. 1993, US) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, in 2015. He is a recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Painting, Berlin (2015-16). This year was marked by his first institutional exhibition “Satura” at Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy. In 2024, Fratino’s paintings were featured in the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa.