A skillful mix of texture and color chemistry, Fabio Viale is an Italian artist who not only creates splendid marble sculptures but also tattoos them.
An unusual practice without doubt, never seen before, his style is a refined, cultured, eccentric, and extraordinarily contemporary approach to historical sculpture, which he interprets with a very personal language.
The main characteristic of his marble sculptures is that they are not colored on the surface, the Italian artist does not paint anything on marble, but uses ink that infiltrates the material in a very similar way to tattoos that penetrate human skin.

The combination of marble, classicism, and tattoos is a choice repeated several times in the works of Fabio Viale.
An extraordinary technique, exploiting the porosity of the marble manages to make the color penetrate all the way through.
His art is an encounter between life and death, between the sacred and the profane. An atypical combination that arouses amazement and wonder, where the history of a sculpture blends with contemporary tattoos, often seen in a negative way.

Fabio Viale creates a dialogue between classical iconography and Russia. In fact, the artist has chosen to represent on the sculptures the tattoos often used by prisoners in the transcontinental state, which has a very complex meaning and code. The aim is to tell a life story and to arouse fear, messages that screech with the whiteness of marble.