1994 | Roma | Italia
The artistic path I have followed so far has always been characterized by a deep love and respect for color. In an initial phase, freely experimenting with color allowed me to discover effects that over time became the distinctive signs of a personal artistic grammar. I consider art one of the most important forms to express emotions and communicate, and at the same time a beautiful liberating selfishness. I experience art as an inner explosion of contrasting and fragmented sensations, which I try to gather and codify through images. This vision has always driven me to a relentless search for the new and the different, to study and challenge myself and the observer using different materials and supports. In the first experiments, I overturned the classical use of watercolor through a personal technique based on inserting color and water into shapes obtained by cutting acetate, then adding weights to imprint the color on paper, creating unprecedented effects due to oxygen deprivation. At the same time, I began engraving and cutting the paper instead of using a pencil, adding glue to create reliefs and effects with color, until fully immersing in the material: sand, plaster, cement, bitumen, glue, and enamels became protagonists on various supports. Wood, recycled cardboard, drywall, and expanded polystyrene became the initial canvases on which to let color play mixed with materials. Since art is for me an expressive vehicle connecting my inner world with those who encounter it, it has always evolved and enriched itself.
20-26 Jul 2023
Vernissage
Thursday 20 Jul 18:30-21:30
The exploration of material art has produced a wide variety of different styles, often far apart from one another. I thus used art as a mediator to achieve balance and to align the calm expressed by watercolor with the exuberance conveyed by material works. This process led me to a new creative phase, preceded by observing the shapes, lines, and elegant shades of watercolor on one hand; on the other, it pushed me to reevaluate the white spaces of the paper left by color. It is precisely in the complementarity of watercolor and its absence that a reference point was found to start a balanced synthesis with different styles and materials. The study of new forms allowed the introduction of new materials into a realm previously governed exclusively by watercolor. Interpreting art as a challenge to improve and as an expressive language (often more functional than words), it has been a gradual process and not without difficulties, still ongoing.
