Mixed-media work
Painting and the various artistic movements that have followed and evolved over the centuries have pushed me to always try to look at a painting with the eye of its creator. In particular, I have been increasingly attracted to the artistic movements that gave birth to contemporary art: Poor Art, Pop Art, Minimalism, Neo-Impressionism, Expressionism, Fauves, Cubism, and many others.
Over time, artists have found more and more innovative and disruptive methods to express themselves. This is exactly what fascinates me: speaking through forms. Say with colors. If we then combine technology (which is another of my passions) with the creation of artistic forms, the possibilities multiply indefinitely.
Above all, for my physical creations, I am inspired by the concept of Arte Povera. This is an artistic movement born in Italy in the sixties of the twentieth century, and to which many artists adhered to become among the greatest and most influential of the twentieth century, such as Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Michelangelo Pistoletto and several others. The birth of the movement can be dated to coincide with the first exhibition of “poor artists” held in 1967 in Genoa, at the La Bertesca gallery, while the term was coined by the art critic Germano Celant, considered the movement’s theorist.
The name “Arte Povera” refers both to the materials that poor artists used (that is humble materials, such as papier-mâché, recycled iron, rags, recycled objects, wood, earth, plastic and so on) and, above all, to the fact that of the movement was to place itself in opposition to traditional art and develop a language capable of reducing the work to the essential, of “impoverishing” the work in other words, and that was more suited to that of contemporary society.
In particular, I am fascinated by the use of industrial cement (both gray and white) and by building plaster mixed with sticky additives and I therefore create my works using the plastering techniques applied on the canvas. Based on in-depth studies and multiple experiments with these materials (reactions, drying times, different additives, etc.) I have developed very personal techniques and workflows. The result is to obtain works that deeply reflect my moods, because they spring from a “profound introspective journey”. It takes me a long time to finish a job but it is an immense joy for me. the same joy I feel every time I look at one of my works.