Eyes

Pencil on paper, 10 x 10 cm, 2001. I've always been attracted by the eyes, and by the sensuality that comes from the attempt to represent their liquidity, transparency, shadows and shades of colors. Drawing the eyes is a simple exercise, but it lends itself to endless variations. On this subject I apply my obsession for decoration, and so I try to investigate what is the limit beyond which the subject of the drawing is no longer the eye, but the decoration itself. The small size allows me to combine a simple subject to a decoration exasperated. The choice of the eyes stems from the idea of the makeup, which is basically a form of decoration.

Xin butchering an animal

Oil on canvas, 2008, 90 x 70 cm. The animal has just been skinned and is about to be cut into pieces. It may be a pig, a dog, or a monstrous being. It could be me, punished and offered in sacrifice to wash a fault that I'm sure I have not committed. This original painting is available for sale at the price of 2300 US$, shipping included. Contact me in case you are interested in more information about my work, the sales prices of individual works, or the availability for work on graphics.

Cats

 Oil paintings on wrapping paper. 1999.

Exotic flowers

Oil and pencil on thick paper, 30 x 30 cm, 1999.

Faces

"Chromosome number 6" and "Chromosome number 8". Oil and pencil on paper, 17 x 17 cm, 1997.

A series of very simple small works, almost trivial: each drawing depicts a face and an expression. 

Is it possible to create a catalog of all the expressions of the human face? Is it possible to classify all the attitudes that our face can take and give a name to each one? No, obviously, because the expressions are endless, as well as the possible variations in the human physiognomy, so that a certain attitude, worn by different faces, can assume from time to time different meanings. It's a game in which the variables are too many to govern, a sort of indeterminate equation. But then, what sense can have a job like that? Indeed, it could be interesting to investigate why, who portrays the faces, has chosen these, among all the possible infinite combinations. There are some recurring elements? The expressions are mostly happy, or sad and pensive? The eyes are directed towards the observer, or are they absent, facing something hidden? Eventually, this collection of chromosomes will not be able to describe a kind of genetic code, but it will be something very close to the genetic code of the artist.

Microcosm

 

"Microcosm".Oil on canvas, 110 x 40 cm, 1996. 

A plate of fruit

 "A plate of fruit". Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm, 1990.

Society

"Society". Ink on thick paper, 33 x 48 cm, 1989.

 

Fish

 

FISH. Oil on canvas, 70 x 70 cm, 2022 (original sold). 

I open my eyes underwater. The contours of objects are blurred. The contrast between the colors is softened by a veil that makes everything more uniform. The refraction of the light is influenced by the ripples in the surface of the sea. Flashes of light dance on things, concentrating and dispersing, giving the surface of the objects it stands on the impression of velvet. The fish move slowly among the seaweed, all things appear together, faded and dissolved into one another.

Pennants

              

Oil on thick paper; 30 x 50 cm, 2022.

Every time that I come back home from a journey or a holiday, I always find some flags among the photographs that I’ve taken. I am particularly fascinated by those flags moved by the wind, where the geometries of the coloured tissues overlap on the spirals of folds and on the shadows generated by the movement. It’s even better if the flag is old, maybe a bit ripped, marked by the time that they spent to wave, maybe a little faded or dirty from the dusty air they crossed.

These original paintings are available for sale at the price of 420 US$ each one, shipping included. Contact me in case you are interested in more information about my work, the sales prices of individual works, or the availability for work on graphics.