Biography
was born in 1908 in Palermo, where I presently live and work. In 2007 I finished my painting studies in my town academy. For many years I have been committed in an artistic research involving any kind of support, making no distinction among the various expressive methods.
My work always starts with the analysis of an idea or a reflection; I try to observe and interpret the world, describing it according to new signifiers.
I observe the human being related to technology and global dynamics, how these changed his social relations and his consumptions, which are becoming more and more mechanic, pathological and inhuman.
I use pictorial, material and chromatic contrast, dosing it as the contradictions regulating our reality.
I create works marked by an artistic research in continuous evolution, keeping focused on the observation of the phenomenon I’m analysing.
I try to use any technique: painting, sculpture, photography, installation, computer grafica and video cohabit in my work, they often touch each other, contaminating each other. In my latest works, the Assemblages, I enjoy overthrowing the nature of the materials I use: from wastes they become a new resource and, carefully assembled, they give life to amazing cyborgs that take from time to time the shapes of animals and humanoids, narrating and representing ideas or simulating sittings of works of the past.
My assemblages are grotesque machines feigning the shapes of nature, trying clumsily to overcome it, and they appear both seductive and disturbing for the thematic implication their nature raises.
