Discover Fabricarizoma
Fabricarizoma is a research platform dedicated to contemporary collectible craft, operating simultaneously as a curatorial space, production studio, and site for interdisciplinary exchange. Founded by Francesco Dell'Aglio and Emanuela Calabrese, the project is grounded in the conviction that craftsmanship is not simply a category of production, but a contemporary cultural practice capable of generating new forms of knowledge, collaboration, and material innovation.
Based in Naples, in an eighteenth-century apartment that has been reconfigured as a private home gallery. The domestic setting perfectly matches the approach to exhibiting and experiencing objects, creating a context in which works are encountered within an inhabited environment rather than through the conventions of institutional display. The space is conceived to foster direct engagement between makers, collectors, curators, designers, and researchers through a program of exhibitions, private appointments, conversations, and small-scale events.
We focus on limited editions, unique works, site-specific commissions, and original craft projects developed in close collaboration with international and contemporary artisans. Each project is the result of a dialogue between traditional craftsmanship, material research, and contemporary design culture, with particular attention to the technical expertise, cultural context, and individual methodologies of each practitioner. Rather than presenting craft as a nostalgic or heritage-based discipline,
Fabricarizoma positions it as an active field of experimentation intended to respond to contemporary cultural, technological, and social questions. This approach extends to digital practices and emerging technologies, including computation and artificial intelligence. Through the principles of craft and artistic intelligence we promote experimentation, situated knowledge, and direct engagement with digital tools and processes.
Residencies constitute a central component of our program. Invited makers are supported through periods of research and production that encourage direct engagement with local materials, techniques, and manufacturing knowledge while fostering exchanges with the broader international creative community. These residencies generate original works developed specifically for the gallery and contribute to an evolving body of research around contemporary making and material practice.
Alongside its exhibition activity, Fabricarizoma will develops an editorial and curatorial program that investigates the role of craftsmanship within contemporary culture. Through publications, talks, workshops, collaborations, and research initiatives, we aim to promote critical reflection on the relationships between material culture, craft, technology, and society. This expanded approach reflects the belief that craft extends beyond the production of objects, functioning as a methodology for inquiry, experimentation, and cultural production.
We also hosts a series of private gatherings that bring together collectors, artists, designers, academics, and professionals from different disciplines. These events are conceived as opportunities for sustained dialogue around the works presented and the broader cultural questions they address, reinforcing our commitment to building meaningful relationships between production, collecting, and intellectual exchange.
Fabricarizoma represents a generation of galleries that integrates production, research, and curatorial practice within a single platform. By collaborating with established masters as well as emerging practitioners, we seek to expand the discourse surrounding collectible contemporary craft while supporting the creation of works distinguished by conceptual research, technical excellence, and material experimentation.
Through this philosophy, Fabricarizoma aims to establish itself as an international reference in the field, promoting and supporting craftsmanship as a critical and forward-looking cultural practice, combining material mastery, techniques and human touch to question the future of material culture.
