"Dormant" Painting

Guido Maria Filippi was born in Rome on September 4, 1954.

Professionally he moves on two parallel tracks, but coinciding in the same person.
The author obtained a degree in Medicine in 1980, then followed a three-year engineering course, and worked for two years in Paris at the Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie du College de France conducting research on the functioning of the Nervous System and muscles.

He is currently Associate Professor in Human Physiology at the Catholic University of Rome where he combines teaching and research activities.

The same author follows, in the same 1970s, the teaching of Ferruccio Ferrazzi at the Scuola delle Mura, directed by him, developing the technique of drawing, tempera and, later, oil and acrylic.

He would continue over the years, in parallel with his research in neurophysiology, his pictorial research in a manner that was as autonomous as it was continuous and intense, working on even conspicuous formats.

Signs on stones must mean something most important, because it took millennia to write them down
Signs on stones must mean something most important, because it took millennia to write them down

What is around us appears to us with images, but we perceive them with sounds, smells, tastes, heat, cold,touch, doore. When these perceptions touch our memory they become something that somehow speaks to us about new things we do not know, something that makes sense of us in the world.

The marks on the stones must mean something very important, because it took millennia to write them down. It takes a willingness to listen.