Ashes

Ashes is a series of paintings made in oil colour on linen, it is born after a study on centuries-old olive trees, in Salento (Apulia, Italy). These trees used to grow in south-east Italy for centuries, through history they remained unchanged, always green. Their characteristic and monumental form as living sculptures was the result of a perfect connection between humans and nature. Since 2010 a bacterium started to slowly choke all of them to death, and now, looking from the hills, as far as the eye could, the land is just grey, like ash. This series of paintings was born from the studies of these trees and it is developed on the study of the Fibonacci sequence, and the similarity between the human brain and dark matter.

Accomplice Series

Accomplice is a corpus of paintings produced on linen canvas with egg tempera, each of them measuring approximately 100 x 100 cm.

The project was created in the winter of 2021 during the lockdown, throughout the viewing of the entire filmography of the artist and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini. Drawn blindly while watching the latest film -120 Days of Sodom- 5 paintings have come to life.

The essential feature of these paintings is given by the contrast between the softness of the bodies and the geometric lines of the architectural structures. The geometries are reminiscent of fascist architecture and deliberately designed to resemble theatrical sets while emphasizing the inconsistency of the social structures that determine the lives of many people.

Reliquary Series

Reliquary is a corpus of 24 paintings produced on linen canvas with egg tempera. The canvas fabric refers to something ancient and contemporary, egg tempera intends to be a common thread between the past and the present. In deciding to eliminate the frame and hold the piece between two slabs of glass, the canvas was meant I made as a shroud-relic. The canvases are meant to work either individually, in groups or in pairs, as they communicate with each other. The work as a whole is meant to be seen as succession, and portray the presence of these bodies locked within the arches, they resemble the idea of the nave in a church with its minor altars.

This body of work emerges from reflection on individual potential and the inability of precise consideration prevented to make it blossom. This reflection visually translates the impediment into an arch, the arch is taken into consideration as an architectural object with a precise historical and social connotation. It also suggests, the inevitability of being part of a larger architectural structure, but the building that would be part of the arch does not exist in the canvases, it exists only as an idea for the subjects represented. The export of the building suggests that the casualties that prevented the individual's fulfilment may have been more precarious and illusory than the man or woman involved could imagine or see from within the situation. It opens up the possibility that the causes that prevented them from asserting themselves were not insurmountable or that they may have been created by themselves.