giovedì 29 gennaio 2015

alien bunny

ALIEN BUNNY
From the series “In the absence of God”, oil and pencil on paper, 28 x 40 cm, 2014. Original sold.



venerdì 23 gennaio 2015

tattooed body




“Tattooed body”, oil colors and graphite pencil on paper, 30 x 42 cm, 2015.

I do not have tattoos on my body, but the tattoos on the bodies of others make me crazy! I love especially those tattoos whose design can follow the lines of the muscles, taking the shape of the anatomical parts over which are drawn. I prefer very large and colorful tattoos, those who take a whole arm, the whole leg, the whole back.

But I always thought something curious also, and maybe this opinion of mine is wrong... I have always been convinced that, in a sense, tattoos are a protection, a screen, a kind of refuge, a small shield that ensures security to those who "wears" them. After all, it may be the same consideration for accessories in clothing, or for those who drink or smoke at the counter of a bar or at the edge of the dance floor. Often that person does not really want to smoke, but the cigarette gives the "courage", allows him to deal with a situation that is "socially" challenging. If this idea also applies to tattoos, they then not only would be a feature that the person who owns them wants to declare itself. They would also be a confession of weakness, an admission of fragility, and for this reason even more appreciable.

http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-tattooed-body/46606/2313322/view

#tattoo #tattooes #body #male #naked #erotic #fragile #fragility

giovedì 15 gennaio 2015

io e simona al mare nel 1975







































"Me and my sister at the sea in 1975". Oil on cardboard, 21 x 20 cm, 2013. ORIGINAL PAINTING SOLD.

giovedì 8 gennaio 2015

venerdì 2 gennaio 2015

constellation n. 9

CONSTELLATION N. 9
From the series “The stars reflected in the eyes”, cementite, oil, graphite, wooden sticks and cotton thread on paper. 26 x 26 cm, 2014.
Anything that can be classified in a homogeneous series exerts an attraction on me and an impulse to draw it. Perhaps what attracts me is the research of the variant, the exploration of the rules that allow the inclusion of that group of objects in a single set but giving to each object its uniqueness.
So I always liked to draw eyes. Individual eyes, wide eyes, groups of eyes, half closed eyes. To change the expression or play with colors and decorations as if it were a make-up, allows endless variations.
Even the constellations in the sky are endless, and I drew these too, as if they were geometric embroidery or imaginary and arbitrary warping created for the sole purpose of interpreting a reality difficult to understand.
Then, when the verse of a mawkish romantic song came into my thoughts ("The starlight is reflected in your eyes ..."), I could not resist to create a new series, based on the union of those two, which although have nothing to do with each other, related by the only fact of being homogeneous sets, ready to be classified to quench the thirst of an artist that is anxious to bring order into its chaotic imaginary world.
#stars #constellation #eyes #embroydery #thread