Paintings

I present here a series of oil paintings (selection) accomplished out over a period of years (2003-2021). The act of painting came naturally in my life, during adolescence, goes beyond a mere craft, already at the time, and still today, even with more knowledge acquired, it is a way of giving voice to the expression of the unspeakable. The process is not limited to a series of technical aspects, there is a whole preparation of the environment, mental state, which also serve as propellant. It is also a lonely process, as only in this way can creativity be allowed to surface. The fascination for other images, whether painting or not, serve as inspiration, fuel, and combined with auditory stimuli (music) have the ability to trigger the visual mind… Anger, boredom, catharsis, the emptiness of existence, pain and love, passion, the desire for emptying of the matter, through the materialization of the desire itself, duality… it is going to the visceral emotion against a sense of living on a sterile rationality. It’s a state of constant immersion… The common thread that accompanies the work is the human experience, in the first person, on a side that has to prevail in the shadow, but that pulsates and demands to come to the surface… Portrait, surrealism, realism, hyperrealism, academic, naturalism, expressionism and more recently some abstraction, there have been several sources of inspiration over the years from other artists and artistic movements, which I have absorbed and transmitted in my creations, in greater or lesser dose, in an attempt to achieve in an image that feeling I feel when a work of Art takes me, it’s something intense and mesmerizing…