Foliage Painting

I am an Italian-born Washington DC-based artist. I explore patterns of structures in nature. My ritual is based on the study of objects, materials and shapes which recall natural geometries. Sometimes, I use them to make compositions representing an allegorical landscape. My works are created on a ground uneven wash of thin paint that reveals large gestural movements with a variation of pigment density. The colors are usually based on something that catches my interest in my day combined with a psychological status. I also play with a combination of sharp edges and fading surfaces, transparencies and more dense colors. The pigment is often worked into a compact smooth surface that reflects the light like a mirror. What On this basis, I start building a geometric, lyric, composition that reflects concepts from philosophy, literature, myth and physics about the time. My painting are abstracts or representational and recently they reflect the theories about the structure of the time. I am fascinated and obsessed with time. Encased by birth and death, it is one of the most complex problem ever explored. Time as a subject of my recent paintings is also related to what we are and our memories.