Artist Mosè Giordani
We met Mosè through a mix of shared people, conversations, and a certain kind of energy, the kind that builds quickly and doesn’t need much explanation. A love for Fabriano and martinis did the rest.
When we sat down together at Fritto Misto Comune, it was over a Mexican meal, martinis (of course), and a bottle of Verdicchio. To say the night was fluid would be an understatement. Mose quite literally made his final piece for the postcard project at the table — the concept drawings formed from whatever was around him, including the meal itself.
For Mosè, Fabriano is simple to describe but also impossible to define.
“Bella, simple, full, empty… everything. Better than you expect.”
Born here, shaped elsewhere, and having spent the past 11 years living in Florence, he finds himself drawn back often. His relationship with the town is less about nostalgia and more about necessity. He first moved away to study economics, before later following something deeper, returning to university to study art.
“I come back to breathe,” he says. “The mountains, the family, the friends.”
There’s something grounding about it, space to think, to make, to step away from the noise of the city.
“I come to the mountains to pick juniper and inhale… to recalibrate.”
His work reflects that same tension.
Mosè doesn’t talk about inspiration in the usual way, though he feels a connection to artists like Picasso, Mark Rothko and street art.
“It’s not inspiration,” he says. “It’s therapy. I have to make art.”
His process is layered, often returning to works over time rather than finishing them in one sitting. Materials shift depending on the moment — ink, oil, acrylic, pencil — sometimes even natural elements or whatever happens to be within reach.
Nothing is too fixed. Everything is open.
“My art is often two heads,” he says. “Two ideas at once.”
That duality carries into the piece he created for the postcard project — something very Fabriano, but also entirely his own. A symbol. A shift. A reflection on time.
Like much of his work, it doesn’t explain itself immediately. It asks you to sit with it.
When we ask who he would send a postcard to, his answer turns inward.
“To myself,” he says. “In ten years.”
He pauses.
“I’d want to know what I think of myself now. Not to cheat it.”
He laughs, but there’s something serious underneath it. Like his work, the idea holds both weight and lightness — reflection without overthinking it.
Mosè joined the Fritto Misto Comune postcard project because, in his words, it’s “one of the most interesting things happening in Fabriano right now.”
But more than that, it’s about contributing to something local. Something real.
“Doing something good for the city,” he says.
Like the project itself, his work sits somewhere between instinct and intention…..shaped by place, but never limited by it.
Fabriano, through his lens, becomes something fluid.
