Icona Rossa n.15 Painting

The gloom of Sironi, the soft irony of Magritte, the surreal smile of the great Belgian, the harsh echo of the expressionists, the Byzantine preciousness (interior and material and) of a Klimt and the drama of a Schiele, the plasticity of post-cubist painting, of the Italian twentieth century: by mixing these components, we have an artist of strong temperament, forged by rigorous creativity and highly original inspiration, internalized cultural connotations and affinity, a painter who does not ignore the Picassian principle of militant art, who sides with Dante's ardor and disarming simplicity. It has been reviewed and highly appreciated by numerous Italian and foreign critics, scholars and artists such as Vito Apuleo, Gina Avogadro, Lucio Barbera, Achille Bonito Oliva, Carlos Canals, Toti Carpentieri, Renato Civello, Vitaliano Corbi, Costanzo Costan-tini, Floriano De Santis, Giorgio di Genova, Pietro Elia, Pericle Fazzini, Pedro Fiori, Txema Gonzales, Domenico Guzzi, Enzo Le Pera, Ghislain Myaud, Mario Monteverdi, Raffaele Monti, Josè Ortega, Eduard Pignon, Baltasar Porcel, Pierre Restany, Angelo Savelli, Giuseppe Selvaggi, Skip Sheffield, Luigi Serravalli, Tonino Sicoli, Luigi Tallarico, Ernesto Treccani, Antonello Trombadori, Marisa Vescovo. His works are found in private and public collections. He has received many awards and recognitions in Italy and abroad. In the Capitol, the President of the Senate Giovanni Spadolini presented her with the International Award "Calabria in the World" reserved for illustrious Calabrians. He deals with editorial graphics: he has illustrated posters and book covers. As a publicist, he collaborated with the Idea magazine. He has also participated in poetry competitions, winning the Calliope Prize in Rome and the International Prize of the City of Venice, in Venice, for unpublished works. In his language defined by many as "neo-expressionist", the artist reveals the international soul "in the wake of a temperament that binds Mediterranean and European continentality" (Domenico Guzzi), "[... [dark enigmaticity and Mediterranean sunshine, both transferred to her sensitivity by the Austrian and Central European maternal branch and the Italic or rather Hellenic paternal branch “(Gina Avogadro).