Artist Statement
When I was attending the painting class at my city’s Art School, I found out I was not only painting but building paintings. Wood, charcoal, pigment…
And canvas: A background. A thread. A dress. A skin.
Beyond background, the canvas established itself as a binder of all stories. Unweaving its threads just reveals the hidden drawing, like a story that always had been there, but was biding its time.
I have been refining this approach throughout the years in order to focus on the story the canvas is telling me: I eliminated painted surfaces to give prominence to drawing and blankness, seeking equilibrium and simplicity, striving to tell more with less.
The immediacy of the unweaving process –like writing, serves a form of resistance : the power of my unconnected hand as the only tool to tell stories.
Works
2019 Come prima, meglio di prima
2008-12 Sacromonte
2003 Mise en abyme de l’œuvre et perception esthétique
Off the machine
Artworks available here.
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