Description
There is a moment, on the way home, when you choose the longer road — to let your thoughts unfold, your breathing return, the noise of the day settle. Fabrizio Bellanca found that moment and fixed it on aluminium. Take the Long Way Home portrays a wide tree-lined avenue, with trunks rising vertically, almost architectural in their serial repetition — and between them the hand-brushed aluminium surfaces as filtered light, as sky opening between the branches: it is the metal surface itself that breathes, reflects, becomes landscape.
Bellanca layers printing inks over glass colours with the gestures of someone who knows the material deeply: cadmium red fades into crimson, the black of the trunks opens into thin marks reminiscent of the Dremel’s stroke on steel — the technique that revolutionised his practice from 2004 onwards. At the bottom, almost invisible, a few human figures walk beneath the branches: here it is nature that has monumental proportions, and man returns to being what he is — a passer-by beneath the vaults of an avenue that existed before him and will endure after.
