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Hallo, I'm LUGO an italian painter. I'm 42 years old and I come from Vasto, a small town on the Adriatic coast. I use a mixed media based on tempera painting on board with the application of wooden sculptures (carvings). For my sculptures I use smoothed down wooden fragments floated by running water onto my coast. My universe hangs over between fantasy and reality, past and present. Its a conflicting gravities world: mountains look like bridges, villages built upon stationary waterfalls. Lonely moons and calm seas cancel millennial distances, sinking in uncertain and rarefied silences. Everything appears hanging by a thread, between truth and fiction. Unreal galleons sail into delicate shades, climbed up hovels are lost in blue hidden skies. I like to evoke nature allegorically dissolving tangibility. Flotsam and jetsam become Protagonists of Indistinct rising again in a fabulous world. I use my native coast like a jewel-case full of humble objects containing dreams and oldest secrets kept on by the sea.