Artist Statement

Fracchia works predominately in collage and drawing. He collects imagery from a number of different sources such as photographs taken while travelling or ones found in old books or magazines. Through cutting out and storing particular elements from these photographs, Fracchia builds a repertoire of figure and scene references. Through collage Fracchia takes on the role of a kind of casting director, where his collected imagery forms a cast around which he constructs a set, so that his audience is presented with a performance on paper. Through re-interpretations made through drawing, Fracchia carefully eliminates any trace of where these images came from, presenting a new reality where an ironic juxtaposition is developed. He is inspired by; the combination printing of pictorialist photographer, Henry Peach Robinson, Eric Fischl’s fresh narrative style of painting, the “highly-staged and ambiguous” paintings, drawings and films of Michael Borremans and the collages and paintings by Max Ernst.