Biography
Roberto Fantini was born in Rome in 1960. He graduated at the "I Liceo Artistico" in Via Ripetta in Rome and his attraction towards all forms of art was so strong that he started exhibiting his artworks when he was only 14 years old.
The artistic career of Roberto Fantini is rich of many experiences, the most different ones: he dances at professional level,He worked as an actor, he works as a fashion model, he acts and he also explores photography as a professional.
As a painter, he professionally matures also through his frequent travels to Asia, especially Tibet (where the takes his inspiration from the study and the re-discovery of the origins of mankind as well as from the research of the significance of spirituality) and to various other countries, until he decides to live outside Italy for 14 years.
The deep understanding of colors, atmospheres and places of the mankind’s origins and profound knowledge of the materials he uses, characterize his work on the visual testimony of the first inhabitants of the planet – the cave paintings.
Back to Italy, today the artist lives and works in Rome.