Biography
The human element is fundamental to my paintings, even when it is absent. My pictures express feelings, action, thought, sentiments, communication, and the development of a situation.
Themes developed: communication, action, purpose, exchange of intention. And this is what I want to come out of a picture.
I study the behaviour of the crowd in different circumstances. I find it interesting to see how people move around in the space. In the same way birds and insects use the space following the logic of the crowd, the logic of their intent. This gave origin to works on pigeons and ants.
Encaustic: The main interest for this very old technique is first my cultural roots. The study of ancient Greek culture, history of art, literature, philosophy and history, brought me to investigate ancient Greek paintings, now almost disappeared. I was fascinated by the Fayoum portraits, painted on wooden panels. The quality of those works after two thousand years is still intact. The people pictured brought me the feeling of dialogue with the culture I had met only on books poems, philosophy. I had the sensation I was meeting the very same persons who had been living in that ancient culture
