This is a War Painting

Born in Italy, my literary studies in Rome, everyday life surrounded in classical art and architecture, my experience in the archaeological museum of Sperlonga, I have been captivated by the greatness of classical art and the power of its mythology. I have learned the principles of sculpture and restoration, recreating an object from its fragments, that marked my life as an artist. I can't limit my expression to a specific medium or support, but I often use wood, fabric, paper, wax, prints, paint, Plexiglas, resins, metal. Everyday objects, hardware, photography are my preferred tools in my process to capture and contain fragments of experience. I transfigure elements of reality into symbols and signifiers, in a sort of restoration and recreation, leading to one of several possible realities. The appropriation of certain objects, or their creation, are a similar approach of decontextualization, which proposes a reflection on possible different contexts. Nothing is fortuitous or instinctive, I proceed by synthesis and subtraction, eliminating unnecessary material and ideas, distortions, avoiding known forms and concepts. Often, my creative process is not linear but fractal, it may lead to many possible and complementary results, including the opposite position from where it started, like a symmetric negative of the initial idea. It brings me to deny and embrace at the same time. The representation is fractionated, deconstructed and recomposed. Elements are excluded from the different order, leaving empty spaces, a new meaning may now appear. The representation is an entirely distinct and individual object. My work is to arrange elements, images and evidence of reality, and attributing to the resulting entity the status of a real and tangible object.