the missing child

Oil and graphite on wood panel, 72 x 59 cm, 2015.

Is it me the missing child? I have often, in the childhood memories, gaps, holes in the memory, as if something had been deleted. The feeling that there was something improper, inappropriate, something that has been removed. Was I out of place? Was there something inappropriate in my behavior? Something reprehensible, capable of arousing the blame of adults and detachment of the other children?

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butterfly

BUTTERFLY

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green chameleon

GREEN CHAMELEON

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

The medieval illustrators represented animals that they had never seen, described by others, or derived from mythology. This generated monstrous creatures. From here comes the idea of a common set of animals, which are deformed with the help of redundant decorative codes.

These artworks are made on paper overlaying subsequent layers of oil painting and pencil drawing (I often use graphite not only to emphasize the traits but as a colour itself, to fill and darken entire areas of the drawing).

virtual model

VIRTUAL MODEL - 50 x 50 cm, 2015.

I like to create imaginary worlds. Using the modeling software I invent virtual simplified realities, probably the result of travel memories and past experiences. I choose the types of buildings, I place them on a fictitious ground, check the colors to the various parts, the lights, the elements of the landscape. And then I choose a point of view and portray this place of fantasy. The traditional landscape painting has to deal with the atmospheric variables, with the mutability of natural light. Here, on the contrary, not only everything is static, but I can change the various elements at will: add or remove pieces, move something, try the effects of shadows depending on the movement of the lights. But it is a small difference, and also the difference between "real" reality and virtual reality is now small: it has become part of our daily lives, changed our way perceiving, somehow has itself become real.

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