Amintire Painting

I attended high school in my hometown, that had a very good classical high school comprising even an acting class. I’ve always loved art and I often made drawings or logos for school events. My grandfather was a painter in his leisure time, so I was encouraged to follow my inclinations and to enroll at the Printmaking course of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, in which I spent five wonderful years studying art and learning new skills thanks to both regular lessons and seminars and workshops. During the last five years I focused my research on monotype, because I see it as a technique which encloses both the freedom of painting and the poetic gestures of printmaking. Initially I used the most spread monotype technique, involving glass plates and oil or acrylic colors, before using a plate of metal and chalcographic inks instead, after having studied this way to realize them on some Printmaking books. This, together with the new media I’d learnt from the painting classes, helped me to develop my own language : to me, painting and printmaking are not only two separate techniques between which an art student has to choose, but two sides of the same coin, two media through which it is possible to achieve a result, that is the expression of an idea, a concept or an emotion. Among my courses, there were not only traditional techniques such as etching, engraving or lithography, but also serigraphy and even papermaking, so I had the possibility to deal with a great number of media. In my research, I try to find a synthesis between figurative and abstract, the nude has the same value than a landscape, everything is MEMORY, and in a dreamlike dimension, which is the one of art, all these different elements, coming from my experience and everyday lifel melt together creating a somehow surreal world.