Vincenzo Letta

/// WHO ///
I am born and I live in Pisa, Italy. I started with oil about thirty years ago. After my studies at the Art Academy I participated with the "Italian Art Team", directed by my Art Academy Master Bruno Pollacci, to many exhibitions in Italy, France, in Berlin and New York. Then, Bruno Pollacci introduced me to computer art and digital graphic design, which became my actual job (see my Linkedin profile).

/// WHY ///
After many years of work in digital art and graphic design, I  "came back to matter": paper, china ink, chinese and watercolor brushes. I wanted again a medium where no "undo", no "Ctrl+Z" could save you from a mistake or something you didn't plan. I wanted to learn again how to surf the "imprevisto". My town is a symbol of that... the Leaning Tower is an "imprevisto", a mistake... but how a beautiful!

/// HOW ///
I start my works instinctively, without a precise idea. Then, when I see a shape in it, a figure, an expression I follow and develop it. Or, I remain in an abstract language. Sometimes I sketch first an idea (best occasions are business meetings or boring lectures). Sometimes, while drawing, I orient the paper in different ways several times: that's why you can orient s...