The Sugar Shack

2024, oil on canvas, 60 x 72 in
This work was carried out during the art residency at the Tom of Finland Foundation (TOFF), Los Angeles during the months of September to November 2024. Painted at the garden of the TOFF with local models, Dusan and Dre.
currently at display at the TOFF, L.A. 1421 Laveta Terrace
20.000 USD

At Kirwans Solarium

(section from the painting above)
2024, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in
This work was carried out during the art residency at the Tom of Finland Foundation (TOFF), Los Angeles during the months of September to November 2024. Painted at the TOM house. The room was named after another artist who used to stay there; Kirwan. The models, Dusan and Dre have been portrayed during four sessions for this work.
currently at display at the TOFF, L.A. 1421 Laveta Terrace
18.000 USD

Eric

2024, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in
This work was carried out during the art residency at the Tom of Finland Foundation (TOFF), Los Angeles during the months of September to November 2024. Painted from the live model during three sessions.
currently at display at the Art and Culture Festival Los Angeles, Indigo Hotel Downtown
6.000 USD

Male Nude

2024, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in
This work was carried out during the art residency at the Tom of Finland Foundation (TOFF), Los Angeles during the months of September to November 2024. Painted from the live model during one session.
currently at display at the Art and Culture Festival Los Angeles, Indigo Hotel Downtown
5.000 USD

Die Taufe

(Baptism), section from the painting above
(Baptism)
2023, oil on canvas 71 x 63 in (180 x 160 cm)
Three models engaging in a fisting scene at the atelier. The work was carried out during four sessions with the models.
38.000 €

Leo & Fernando

2023, oil on canvas 39 x 39 in (100 x 100 cm)
Oil sketch within two sessions with the models. No pre drawing on the canvas. The painting is still “in progress”

Nicolas

2023, oil on canvas 47 x 39 in (120 x 100 cm)
Portrait of Nicolas. This Painting was carried out during three sessions with the live Model.
6.000 €

Daddy

2023, oil on canvas, 70,9 x 63 in (180 x 160 cm)
Thomas and Justin are friends of the artist and both frequent models for his work. They haven’t met before this project though. The painting was carried out during two sessions with the models. Like all other works also this one is painted from live models, not from fotos.
15.000 €

section from the painting “Peter” (2020)

Playing Picasso

2022, oil on canvas, 70,8 x 78,7 in (180 x 200 cm)

Three men “playing the scene” of Picassos Painting Nus Masculins (Les trios âges de l’homme) which can also be found as a copy in this work, pinned to the wooden door underneath a b/w wood print of reptiles.

The scene was staged with three models at the artists studio. Proportions similar to Picassos painting subdivide the canvas; yet Picassos window behind the flute playing young man is a landscape painting here quoting the work “Manuel Antonio” (see section LANDSCAPES).

currently on sale at the Art&Culture Festival Berlin 2024, Tom of Finland Foundation

Fisherman

2022, oil on canvas, 86,6 x 63 in (220 x 160 cm)

The work captures a solemn morning moment in Berlin at the river spree. The background shows the site of reonstruction of the Berliner Schloss (Royal Palace of Berlin) at the moment when the work on this painting started, 2018. - A fisherman feeds his harvest to wild herons.

24.000 €

Kasra

Section from the painting “Fisherman” 2022

Lukas

2022, oil on canvas, 23,6 x 31,5 in (60 x 80 cm)
private collection

Jordan

2021, oil on canvas, 47,2 x 59 in (120 x 150 cm)

Jordan Firstman reached out to Fausto for a portrait and visited the studio in Berlin for two modeling sessions during July 2021. To complete the work a design and model of the elaborate fabric (4 x 4 meters in size) have been developed and produced during the following months.

The painting was finished and varnished in December 2021. The fabric displays the Labyrinth and myth of Minotauros (more pictures and information about the fabric on request).

Private collection

Jordan

section from the painting “Jordan” 2021

Peter

(section from the painting above)
2019-2022, oil on canvas (120 x 180 cm)
Portrait of a friend in his appartement in New York.
9.000 €

Sergio

2021, graphite and chalk on paper, (49 x 69 cm)
private collection

Jao

October 2021, Gouache and chalk on paper, 49 x 69 cm
private collection

Micha

July 2020, oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

private collection

Micha

June 2020, graphite and chalk on paper, 49 x 69 cm
500 €

Edison

(Edison, portrait of a friend)

2019, oil on canvas 59 x 47,2 in (150 x 120 cm)

Portrait of Edison, modeling for this work during several sessions at the studio in 2019

18.000 €

Edison

section from the painting “Edison”

Besuch

(Visit)

2020, oil on canvas, 78,7 x 59 in (200 x 150 cm)

From the early 1990ies until the start of Covid 19 pandemic in 2019 the depicted scene would be a pretty “common” end of a night for gay men in Berlin. After party and before returning home, one’d easily make the acquaintance of a host - either on social media or at the street - who’d invite for sex at his home with others. Thus, the open door and the late arriving guest (Fausto’s self portrait) while the sex-party seems to be in full swing are as much part of the game as are the basic interior or the poorly lighted kitchen serving as playground.

43.000 €

a friends remark about this work (March 2021):
“Analog zu den opulent und lustvoll inszenierten Darstellungen kirchlicher Akte, sei es eine Prozession, eine Kreuzigung, eine Krönung oder dergleichen, funktioniert es mit Deinem Bild für mich als atheistischer Hetero ganz ähnlich. Auch wenn ich beim Betrachten eine Distanz zur Motivation habe, so gibt es gleichzeitig die Sehnsucht in etwas Ähnlichem aufgehen zu können. Das hat seine ganz eigene Befriedigung. Es ist wie der ehrfurchtsvolle ergötzende Gang durch eine alte Kirche, nachdem man dann beim Verlassen an der Tür doch nichts in die Kollekte einwirft.”
(In analogy to all those opulent depictions of ecclesiastical nudes full of relish - processions, crucifixions, a coronation or alike - your painting works for me as an heterosexual atheïst as well. Even being distanced from the works particular motivation there is this desire for the ability to be caught up in something similar. That has ii’s very own satisfaction. It’s like the reverential and feasting walk through an old church, but on your step out through the gate you wouldn’t drop a coin to the collection.)

Sebastian

Dec. 2019, oil (painted over a previous oil painting) on canvas, 39 x 39 in (100 x 100 cm)
private collection.