My art work is a journey that follows and sustains my errand soul. I’ve been painting for over 30 years, mainly focused on building a personal artistic poetics and method through constant practice.

Since my first art approaches I opted for a non-imitation of nature, considering its beauty and perfection inimitable, in favor of the investigation of “painting” itself. Painting inner being and beauty is my central interest.

My approach is intuitive, I live the painting process as exploration of perceptual relationships within the context of an evolving mental landscape.

Nature is evocated, never represented, the landscape is imaginary, images are archetypal and fantastic, often improbable. The subjects come from personal and cultural references and needs, and are always a pretext to let the medium express itself. Geometry acquires extraordinary freedom and resolve in unreal spatiality. The result I try to achieve is a vibrant quality surfaces able to transfer the spectator (observer) a moment of reflection, where new cues inexpertly and constantly emerge allowing the viewer to experience its own mental journey.

I prefer using oils on canvas, a technique that lends quality and permanence to my work. I blend warm and cool colors gently into other shades until they either become completely lost in white or clash violently. My palette contains bright primary colors. I create material elements by using gesso and canvas collage. My recurring elements are calligraphy and holes. The calligraphy lives as visual sign inserted in the pictorial space. It is often unreadable. It comes from real thoughts and words (mental notes) but remain submerged and become evocation. Holes became a sort of signature in my work. Being actual holes in the canvas they go beyond the painting two-dimensionality acquiring a great strength. They have the ability of dilate the space as well as balance the entire composition becoming the main point of focus.

My painting is a personal experience of intimate dialogue with myself and the world around me. I express myself through the exploration of color, materials and signs and their interaction and relationship to each other. By experimenting with these elements, I allow them to freely take on their own form to reach a unique equilibrium. The end result is a narrative that transmits extraordinary images relating to space, time, history and memories, interpreted through total expressive freedom.

I let my experience guide my intuition when using shapes and colors, making them appear and disappear simultaneously by having them come to the foreground or slip into the background so that they imbue the work with the dynamic energy of life. I consider my work finished only when it succeeds in creating a moment for reflection. Only when it creates a real fact that turns into poetry, through my own development of the work, am I truly satisfied.

I have always admired the colors of the Fauvists, as they inspire joy and vitality. During my time at the Academy, under the guidance of Maestro Concetto Pozzati, I had the opportunity to study modern and contemporary movements in depth. I have always preferred non-representational art. I feel particularly akin to the Italian Transavanguardia artists of the 80’s, who were devoted to re-discovering painting as a means of restoring to the creative process that element of intense eroticism and that depth of image which does not exclude the pleasure of representation and narrative.

Artists I adopted as model are: Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Paul Klee, Jean Dubuffet, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Lucio Fontana, Osvaldo Licini, Gastone Novelli, Alberto Burri, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Emilio Tadini, Tino Stefanoni, my fellow citizens Graziano Pompili and Omar Galliani, and my Maestro Concetto Pozzati.