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Digital portrait of a bearded man wearing glasses and a bow tie, surrounded by colourful geometric shapes against a muted background.

Unconventional Portraits

Illustration

Role
Concept · Illustration

Project
Unconventional Portraits

Project type
Art prints · Exhibition work

Year
2023

Context
Unconventional Portraits is a visual exploration of identity through the intersection of hand-drawn illustration, digital manipulation, and geometric abstraction. The project moves beyond likeness, focusing instead on presence, attitude, and psychological character.

Concept
Each portrait combines analogue drawing with digital tools to create hybrid forms that sit between realism and distortion. Influenced by art, fashion, technology, and architectural geometry, the work investigates how line, structure, and colour can be used to express individuality rather than decoration.

Faces are treated as compositional systems rather than static subjects — fragmented, reassembled, and reframed to suggest inner states as much as outward appearance. The result is a series of portraits that feel constructed yet human, controlled yet expressive.

Exhibitions & Features
Featured as part of the "Future of Humanity Experience: Redefining Boundaries Through Art, Technology, and Dialogue", Switzerland — 2025, during Art Basel.

→ Selected works presented via Creative Switzerland

Surreal digital portrait of an elderly man with a long white beard wearing a geometric, architectural headpiece and ceremonial robe with hexagonal motifs, rendered in a painterly, futuristic style.
Surreal digital portrait of a woman wearing an architectural yellow and black headpiece, with geometric face markings and a high-neck patterned garment against a muted abstract background.
Surreal portrait of an elderly man wearing an ornate geometric headpiece and a large decorative medallion, rendered in a painterly digital style on a dark background.
Conceptual portrait of a woman with sculptural hair and geometric face paint, set against a hexagonal pattern background in muted green and yellow tones.
Screenshot of the Creative Switzerland “Future of Humanity Experience” gallery page featuring selected artworks by Gianfranco Fagotto and other artists, presented in a grid layout
Screenshot of the Creative Switzerland “Future of Humanity Experience” gallery page featuring selected artworks by Gianfranco Fagotto and other artists, presented in a grid layout
Certificate of participation — “Future of Humanity Experience”, Art Basel, Switzerland (2025). Unconventional Portraits No.1 & No.2.
Photograph of the “Unconventional Portraits” artworks exhibited at Red Dot Miami Art Week, showing framed digital portraits displayed in a white gallery space.
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