"Quarantine #21" Painting

My artistic practice develops through a visual language that combines abstract painting and collage, creating layered surfaces where color, imagery, and fragments of visual culture coexist in a dynamic balance between gesture and materiality.
The works emerge through a process of accumulation and transformation: newspaper clippings, media imagery, and text are incorporated into the canvas and later covered, altered, or partially revealed through expressive painterly interventions. This process creates a fragmented visual narrative that reflects the complexity of contemporary society.
Through the use of collage, my work also introduces a strong dimension of social critique. Images taken from media, politics, and popular culture become elements to deconstruct and reinterpret, questioning the systems of power, consumption, and communication that shape our time.
From a technical perspective, my research engages with the tradition of décollage and urban layering, recalling the experimentation of artists such as Mimmo Rotella, who transformed advertising posters and mass-media imagery into artistic material, and the contemporary practices of Mark Bradford, known for his large-scale compositions built through the stratification of urban and paper-based materials.
Through color, gesture, and visual fragmentation, my works become spaces of tension between chaos and harmony, collective memory and personal perception, transforming the canvas into a place of reflection on the social and cultural reality surrounding us.