MISSING GIRL

October 2025, SpazioQuattro, Messina

Missing Girl is a visual reflection on absence. Not physical absence, but internal
absence: a part of us that finds no space, that remains silent. It is the suspended
identity, the alter ego that does not emerge, that is lost among roles, expectations, fears.
It is what is missing—not because it has disappeared, but because it has never been welcomed.
An absence that dwells, that speaks, that demands to be seen.

The series consists of 10 works, created between 2024 and 2025 with mixed media—acrylic, oil, and gesso—on cotton canvas, all in the 90x90cm format.
The figures, always female, inhabit a dimension of emotional and
visual suspension.

RATATOUILLE

October / December 2024, Banco Azzoaglio di Torino

The works exhibited in Ratatouille try to bring the poetics of Edgard Degas Petits Rats into the contemporary. The Petits Rats, were mostly young dancers from the Parisian suburbs, and represent an unconventional beauty. In the modern era, this poetics stands as an alternative to superficial beauty, inviting us to seek beauty in unexpected places and to celebrate individual uniqueness. Finally, the poetics of the Petits Rats serves as a refuge from the incessant modern frenzy, offering an authentic and timeless beauty to contemplate.

DIETRO I PORTONI

14.09.24 / 27.09.24 
Con/Temporary Space Ex Teatro Macario, Torino

Dietro i Portoni shows 10 female portraits made with mixed media on cotton canvas between 2023 and 2024.
Each female portrait, with its flamboyant retro looks, contains
a profound message that invites us to reflect on the superficiality of appearances and on the masks we often wear in our lives
everyday.
Through a mixed media on cotton canvas, Fieno captures the essence of these mysterious women, revealing details and nuances
which would otherwise remain hidden. They are faces that tell stories, complex personalities that often remain unknown to others.
Every brushstroke, every carefully chosen color, contributes to creation a unique and evocative atmosphere. Dietro I portoni lies a
universe of emotions and secrets, which can only be revealed through art.
These female portraits invite us to look beyond appearances, to go beyond the masks we wear every day.
They push us to reflect on our identities, on our stories personal and how these intertwine with the world around us surrounds.

VIRTUS, VIRTUTIS

25.03.23 / 22.09.23  Complesso Monumentale di Sant'Anna dei Lombardi, Napoli

Virtus, Virtutis is the final act of a profound reflection by Matteo Fieno starting from the work created by Giorgio Vasari in Naples: in an ideal dialogue with the Arezzo master, the artist declines the Virtues illustrated on the vault of the Sacristy in a contemporary key. A reinterpretation that is not only formal but also communicative that has transformed the project into an experimental bridge between eras. At the invitation of ParteNeapolis, which manages the museum area and events of the Complex, Fieno creates twelve canvases (150x150 cm), painted with mixed media, to tell on social media the prolific expressive power of a central theme for the history of art, with its ethical and theological implications. The publication in 2022 on Sant'Anna dei Lombardi's Instagram profile is followed today by the exhibition Virtus, Virtutis which brings five of the contemporary virtues painted by Matteo Fieno to Vasari's places: Sapienza, Concordia, Bontà, Prodigalità e Abbondanza. From the digital world to the analog one and not vice versa, to try to find assonances and similarities with a vision of Virtue that is universal by nature and yet different in every era. 

LE BALLERINE DI CARTA

02.10.21 / 17.10. 21 - Palazzo Burgos - Fondazione Fossano Musica, Fossano

Le Ballerine di Carta  unfolds in nine portraits that give life to a unique fairy tale, told through drawing. 
The dancers show themselves to us with charm and sensuality as they perform everyday actions, unwitting protagonists of these nine modern genre scenes. At the same time, however, through these gestures they express the 
their essence, stimulating in the viewer the desire to know their stories, their characters, their aspirations, 
their world: the path thus becomes a road to maturity, not without the fears that the latter brings 
physiologically with you. 

LE RAGAZZE DI MADAME ODETTE

15.05.21 / 27.05.21 - Galleria d'arte Wikiarte, Bologna

Le Ragazze di Madame Odette 10 canvases of ballerinas inspired by Paris in the early '900, the period of the Belle Epoque; Like every protagonist of one of my paintings and a story, all these girls find themselves confronted with society, with contemporary times, inspiring reflections and deep feelings. 

QUEL PAZZO 2020 Declinato al femminile

24.10.20 /31.10.20 - Galleria d'arte This is Not Torino, Torino

22 canvases made during the lockdown period that tell the story of Quel pazzo 2020 declinato al femminile  where the joy and insecurity of my women are combined with nonconformism and determination to achieve a dream.

DECLINAZIONI AL FEMMINILE

22.11.19 / 06.11.19 - Milano Art Gallery, Milano

42 canvases - 42 women - 42 stories with which we can identify, because we can all share the same feelings despite cultural, social, linguistic, gender or racial differences... In fact, the main goal of a man who paints women is to pose an uncomfortable question about the fact that the world is perhaps not divided into factions as we have been told, but should only be seen with different eyes.