Narcissus #4 Painting

My artistic work is based mainly on paper drawing. I use drawing as a tool to transform photographic images into pictorial ideas that I de-contextualise in order to allow re-interpretation. I normally work in watercolour because it let me suggests a contrast, both in the sensorial and perceptual sense, to the beauty and serenity of this technique versus the conceptual hardness of the subject matter. It gives to my work an ironical tone. I work in series because I usually become engrossed with specific topics, which I investigate and study until I understand them or not. I usually collect images that I find on the Internet. At the same time I photograph the world that surrounds me: friends and family, objects that string along with me, places I’ve been… This collection of images is my own album, which I constantly use to look for references for my work. I work especially with the concepts of privacy and exhibitionism, in order to reflect on themes regarding the cultural phenomenon that is the irrepressible urge to "be visible", the cult of the personal spectacle, the growing fictionalization of reality, and the disappearance of the boundary between public, private and intimate.