Biography
I am a photographer and graphic designer from Reggio Calabria who has been taking his first steps in the area of informal painting, inspired by masters such as Turner, Richter, Rothko, Kline and Mitchell. I first embraced the world of art through photography, but it is through painting that my passion has found its highest expression. The leitmotiv and the key to start reading into my work can be found in my search for images, balance of “forms” and colour depth. What I try to paint are abstract works about reality; it is an attempt to communicate with my daily life, a combination of signs, colours, flashes and movements I live through. It is something I have mixed feelings about; it both fills me up and alienates me. It makes me sink in an abyss of instincts and then re-emerge. It is a loneliness I long for and which leaves me emotionally shaken up.
Through subtle colour tone variations I try to express new space effects, while free brush strokes and thick colour layers are the way I let my passion and pain come out on the canvas.
Look at my work and try to decide, evaluate or identify yourself in what you see. Painting is for me a way to escape and the true reason I paint lies in every brush stroke, colour variation, signs combination..
“When I paint an abstract picture (the problem is very much the same in other cases), I neither know in advance what it is meant to look like nor, during the painting process, what I am aiming at and what to do about getting there. Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings – like that of a person who possesses a given set of tools, materials and abilities and has the urgent desire to build something useful which is not allowed to be a house or a chair or anything else that has a name; who therefore hacks away in the vague hope that by working in a proper, professional way he will ultimately turn out something proper and meaningful.”
Exhibition catalog “Gerhard Richter”,Pier Luigi Siena, Peter Weiermair and organizer Brighitte Unterhofer, Museion, Bolzano 1996, p. 4.
