A virtual model

 

(original sold)

(original sold)

(original sold)

(original sold)

From the series “Virtual model”, oil on paper, 40 x 40 cm, 2019.

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 of perceiving, and somehow has itself become real.

Turin

Two views of my city and its main monuments. 

Oil on cardboard, 19 x 23 cm, 2019. Originals sold.

Masks

Oil on thick paper, 50 x 60 cm, 2019.

This original paintings are available for sale at the price of 720 US$ each one or 1200 US$ together (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.

Ida in the fields

I haven't known my grandmother, but from my mother's stories I imagine she was a very strong and courageous woman. My mother was born during the war, my grandfather was a soldier at the front, and that woman had to look after her newborn daughter, to herself, to the house, in a poor and devastated country, inventing a thousand jobs and expedients. She succeeded, they survived, but the price of this experience was a very tough character. In the pictures of that time my grandmother never seems happy, she never smiles. And my mother, who is now an old woman, still suffers from the thought of a mother who was perfect in everything but who rarely had the possibility of a motion of affection for her. This painting is a small tribute to that woman that I never met, and a reward (unfortunately useless), trying to give her, at least in the imagination, that thoughtless day that maybe she never had.

Oil on canvas, 80 x 120 cm, 2019.

Shells

"Hermit crab on his way back home". 31 x 17 cm (original sold).

"Hermit crabs on the shore". 25 x 15 cm (original sold).

Two little oil paintings on wood, made in 2017, about imaginary animals. 

Birds

From the series “Point me at the sky!”, oil and pencil on paper, 35.5 x 24 cm, 2012. These original paintings are available for sale at the price of 280 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.

(original sold)

(original sold)

(original sold)

From the series “Please do not kill butterflies”, pins, oil and pencil on paper, mounted on a wood panel. 23 x 20 cm, 2019. 

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