A new interview Ewan Shah of Aatonau about my artistic research. Here’s a brief passage:
Order Drawn from Fragments
Fabio Zanino builds an artistic language from one of the oldest human tensions: the desire to find order inside disorder. His practice begins with the recognition that time moves forward without pause, shaping every object it touches through weather, use, accident, and neglect. Rather than resisting that movement, he gathers its traces and gives them renewed visibility. Surfaces marked by rust, fading, abrasion, and erosion become evidence rather than damage. In his hands, discarded matter is not mute residue but a witness carrying memory. This attention to time places his work within a larger conversation about how societies value objects and how material histories survive after usefulness appears to end. He approaches sculpture as both observation and transformation, allowing viewers to consider what remains hidden in ordinary things. Through this method, he creates works that feel contemporary while also connected to enduring human habits of repair, adaptation, and reinvention. His art suggests that what seems exhausted may still contain fresh visual power and emotional resonance.
“I seek to consecrate what lingers at the margins, lifting forgotten materials into totems of a vast collective religion: contemporary art.” – Fabio Zanino