Psychedelic fish

Psychedelic fish. Oil on canvas, 40 x 80 cm, 2016. ORIGINAL PAINTING SOLD.

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Psychedelic-fish/46606/3634990/view

A group of rd fish swimming in a psychedelic sea. The whole things becomes a dream, or an illusion...

EYES

From the series “Eyes”, oil and pencil on paper, 20 x 20 cm, 2014.

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.

(original sold)

EYE

From the series “Eyes”, oil and pencil on paper, 10 x 10 cm, 2012.

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.

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Angry moth

"Angry moth". Pins, oil and pencil on paper, 21 x 15 cm, 2014. Available for sale.

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Me and my sister at the sea

"Me and my sister at the sea ", oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm, 2014

From the series “Family portraits”: 

I suppose that every family, as well as mine, owns his proper baggage of photographic memories, kept in an old cabinet somewhere in the house. In that place are kept the stories of the whole family,  the  memories of grandparents, the marriage of the parents, the childhood period, all the summer holidays, and countless other occasions to remember. Their appeal lies in the irregularities, in the imperfections, in the grains of dust that soiled the film, in the overexposure burning the edges and merging all the objects in an indistinct white light, in the color fading due to the passage of time. I like to think that the paper possesses its own selective memory, which unveils some elements of the image while hides or removes others, staining only parts of the scene, while the rest is left in the second floor, in black and white. Or I like to think that the fading paper misses parts of that memory, and sometimes what remains seems not to be the most important thing.

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Ida in the fields

"My grandmother in the fields". Oil on cardboard, 14 x 20 each, 2000.

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Wedges with yellow and ocher inclusions

from the series “Cuneiform writing”, oil and pencil on paper, 50 x 38 cm, 2005.

The cuneiform writing was a system that was performed impressing on the clay some particular signs with the shape of triangles or wedges, repeated in different positions in order to compose distinguishable characters. In my drawings I use a geometric form, usually triangular, as a mold impregnated with color, repeatedly printed on paper. The final layout of the forms and the colors used can generate a sentence or a meaning.