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The Artist

Renée Fabbi.Occhi — a life between painting, philosophy and peace.

Italy-born, Munich-based. A practice that binds colour to sound, form to ethics, and the museum to the school. This is a short reading — a longer biography and a full timeline follow.

At a glance

Names, places, work

Names

Renée Fabbi.Occhi — art-facing brand.

Dr. R. Renée Fabbiocchi — professional public identity.

Rosella Renée Fabbiocchi — formal / archival.

Places

Born Teramo, Italy (4 April 1957).

Studies and research: Pescara, New York, Oxford, Coventry / Warwick, Paris, Tokyo.

Lives and works between Munich and Volterra.

Work

Painting, mixed media, pedagogical works on colour and music.

Founder of Museo dell'Anima (Munich, 1998) and STELLINA (from 1995).

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Selected milestones

Six openings

  1. 1957

    Born in Teramo, Italy

    Rosella Renée Fabbiocchi born 4 April 1957 in Teramo, Italy.

  2. c. 1980

    Studies at Gabriele D'Annunzio University, Pescara

    Foreign Languages and Literature. Research work related to Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

  3. Early 1980s

    Adopts the name Renée

    In homage to René Magritte's La Mémoire — a re-naming that becomes a way of working.

  4. c. 1984

    DAS

    Early book, per artist materials.

  5. 1987 – 1994

    Il Direttore d'Orchestra

    Begun 1987, described as completed 1994. Dedicated to Miró.

  6. 1988

    ME.MOI.RE

    Foundational homage to Magritte.

  7. 1995

    STELLINA — first workshop in Munich

    Children's workshop and performance from which the STELLINA method grows.

  8. 1998

    Museo dell'Anima inaugurated in Munich

    Museo dell'Anima and Banca dei Valori Spirituali, Mariannenplatz 2.