Painted Stories
Rebirth
A painting created at a particular moment in my life when darkness and anxiety were corrupting my being. The oblivion I felt inside stemmed from the choice to withdraw into myself, precisely at the worst moment. It was then that I realized I could escape by asking for help from the best part of me. I chose to paint two identical mannequins in different poses to represent a person in a mirror. With a simple yet wonderful gesture, one guides the other to reconnect with the universe, a place of beauty and enchantment, filled with light and color.
And silence.
Prologue
This painting represents the lowest point of a phase in my life when oblivion was about to engulf me. When all seemed lost, I realized I had to stop, listen to myself, and step through the cracks. That journey led me to paint "Rebirth – Homage to Magritte," an image of a return, both fragile and ferocious, toward the light. "Prologue" symbolically closes the circle of an inner journey of loss and transformation.
Only by facing the mirror of one's fears can one pass unscathed through the flames.
Confutatis
A painting created in protest against all the massacres perpetrated in the name of power, amid the deafening roar of the screams of a people, of many peoples. In Gaetano Cellini's work, the man is crushed to the ground, overwhelmed by pain. I wanted to convey a different message in my painting. The man tries to get up, and the rock in his hands becomes a canvas that he tears apart to create a void to fill, and that void is the color of hope: white. On white, you can redesign a better world, and W.A. Mozart's Confutatis is the perfect aria for this depiction of hope.
Confutatis AD 2025
The need to update the image created in 2022, in the face of continuing human folly, was too strong to ignore. The Confutatis of that time sought to convey hope, with a gaze toward a better future to be redesigned. The succession of events has caused the meaning to shift: in this historical moment, man returns to being what Cellini intended: a man crushed by the brutal force of Evil. Thus, I created an "ancient" or, better yet, "deteriorated" version of the first Confutatis, just as the story I had dreamed is now.
In the mirror
Painting inspired by social themes.
A simple reflection on how we relate to others, how we see ourselves, and how we would like others to perceive us. The treatment of the naturally painted body, the way I graphically treated the face (which deliberately references a geisha) , is nothing other than a representation of what the modern world demands of us and what we are only too happy to give it: a representation of ourselves.