Swimmers

 

oil on wood panel, 62 x 18 cm, 2021 (original sold) 

oil on wood panel, 57 x 17  cm, 2021 

Imaginary portrait of a boy floating on the water. The uncertainty of the image induces the viewer to think about a boy swimming in the sea as well as about a memory from a dream, where the base concept is the fusion among the subject and the environment, a deep unity between things, where boundaries disappear. Original paintings sold. 

Castles

 

An original piece from the series “Virtual model”, oil on thick paper, 25 x 50 cm. ORIGINAL SOLD.

I like to create imaginary worlds. 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.

The reading rooms

 

oil on thick paper, 30 x 40 cm, 2021 (original sold)

oil on thick paper, 60 x 40 cm, 2021 (original sold).

In the reading rooms I wanted to represent a very simple idea, namely how much the content of a book can acquire reality for those who are reading it, becoming as present as the true reality. For this reason the rooms have a view towards the outside and the concrete world. Only by painting them, I realized that those windows are not an opening, the external landscape does not count at all, and the room is a refuge. The reader is somehow protected from the outside world as in a shelter, and his reality is only inside the book.

Tribal masks

"The coral cat head" and "The dog head". From a series of imaginary tribal masks, oil on thick paper, 50 x 60 cm, 2021. 

The infinite city

Oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm, 2020. Original sold.

In the contemporary metropolis one can often get the impression that there is no end, edge, limit or border. The city seems to extend in all directions to the horizon, often with monotony and apparent alienating repetitions. However, for those who live in it, the infinite city is not only a source of stress and frustration, but it is often an exciting jungle, a continuous challenge full of possibilities and unpredictable opportunities. In the infinite city we become small and the fear of being crushed can be great, but despite this it irresistibly attracts us, like a siren call. 

Nocturne

 

NOCTURNE. Oil on thick paper, 30 x 40 cm, 2020. Original sold.

Waterlilies

"Waterlilies". Oil on thick paper, 30 x 40 cm, 2020.