Painter in Camberwell , South London
Painter in Camberwell South London
I am a South-London based Italian artist. I am a painter and I live in Camberwell.
At the moment I am working mainly with oil, but I have used and still use different media. I create figurative pictures in an expressionist style, my paintings often are about representing the body, which is a vessel for beholding it’s environment and body and environment contain and define one another. I’m my forms, I celebrate my passion for the noir comic books which, in Italy, throughout the 1970s and 1980s became a phenomenon and their popularity was so strong to influence the costume and the standards of morality
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Influences
As a child, I remember finding in the paintings of De Chirico a visual representation of my unexpressed and hardly acknowledged emotions. He was probably the first artist that triggered in me an emotional response. The surrealism is easily understood by a childbirth a vivid imagination, and I was naturally attracted by this movement. Another important source of inspiration is cinematographic language of Italian filmmakers such as Fellini, Pasolini, Tinto Brass, and Dario Argento. The dream-like atmospheres and larger than life characters which represent a common fixture in these directors, have helped to form my sense of aesthetic and enabled me to own the same language to describe or represent moods and emotions. My paintings are a subjective portray of reality through memories and emotions infused by a Collective unconscious rich in archetypes that populate the life-snapshots I paint.
The expressionism also has been indispensable to form my language as a painter. The likes of Munch, Schiller, Kandinsky Franz Marc, Kirchner are my pictorial references both in trying to re-invent their craft and in getting inspiration for the themes discussed.
My Goals (Mission)
To entice the viewer to go deep into the self and return to a childlike freedom of interpretation, as well as to solicit an empathic reaction aimed towards the exploring of a metaphysical reality, even when faced with images of day to day life.
I work from my studio in Camberwell, South London and also from a beach home, in a small village, located next to a beach, which it is populated by surfers and anachronistic hippies that appear to be out of there 60s.The village is in Brazil, near Natal in the North-East of this country. The Brazilian experience has influenced many of my pictures that have absorbed the colourful, iconoclastic richness of such culture that blends in an unique way the sacred and the profane, the mystic and the sensual, the spiritual and the carnal.
Themes, inspirations and content
the logo above is the signature for my digital work to which I will dedicate a heading in the website
There are recurrent themes in my paintings and drawings . They are:
Sex gender and sexuality
The Expressionism
Consciousness
Mythology and influence on Identity
Tropicalia movement
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Influences
As a child, I remember finding in the paintings of De Chirico a visual representation of my unexpressed and hardly acknowledged emotions. He was probably the first artist that triggered in me an emotional response. The surrealism is easily understood by a childbirth a vivid imagination, and I was naturally attracted by this movement. Another important source of inspiration is cinematographic language of Italian filmmakers such as Fellini, Pasolini, Tinto Brass, and Dario Argento. The dream-like atmospheres and larger than life characters which represent a common fixture in these directors, have helped to form my sense of aesthetic and enabled me to own the same language to describe or represent moods and emotions. My paintings are a subjective portray of reality through memories and emotions infused by a Collective unconscious rich in archetypes that populate the life-snapshots I paint.
The expressionism also has been indispensable to form my language as a painter. The likes of Munch, Schiller, Kandinsky Franz Marc, Kirchner are my pictorial references both in trying to re-invent their craft and in getting inspiration for the themes discussed.
My Goals (Mission)
To entice the viewer to go deep into the self and return to a childlike freedom of interpretation, as well as to solicit an empathic reaction aimed towards the exploring of a metaphysical reality, even when faced with images of day to day life.
I work from my studio in Camberwell, South London and also from a beach home, in a small village, located next to a beach, which it is populated by surfers and anachronistic hippies that appear to be out of there 60s.The village is in Brazil, near Natal in the North-East of this country. The Brazilian experience has influenced many of my pictures that have absorbed the colourful, iconoclastic richness of such culture that blends in an unique way the sacred and the profane, the mystic and the sensual, the spiritual and the carnal
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Valerie and Porporina 10/2022 Size A3 oil on paper
Price £120
A pictorial representation of an old photograph found in one of the many shoe-boxes containing gems from my past.
The two characters are two good friends of mine: two transgender women at the very beginning of their transition, in the late 70s, when to be a trans implied to be a prostitute and to belong unmistakably to the creatures of the night. These two marvellous persons are now, millions years away from these initial attempts at bending genders which were believed to be really written on stone ; One of them has found her real self inhabiting a very feminine body which she decorates elegantly by applying her immaculate taste in fashion, while the other is now absorbed by her political and militant involvement and she present herself as a serene lady, maybe a bit butch, she has forsaken plastic surgeries and made space for changing her gender by advocating a femininity non-stereotypical and non predictable
Portrait of a stranger. 06/2022. Size 60x47 cm Oil on wood
Price £ 300
A portrait made with unconventional shading and without interest in blending the shades of colours. The result is a vibrant, suggestive, emotional painting of a young girl. I remember a friend when she saw it she said that the girl looked possessed by some evil entity. It was not my intention to paint a possession, I just wanted to paint an ordinary girl with unusual colours, but, if she saw demonic possession, in her reality that is what the painting is all about
Passion and global warming - 03/2023 Size 50X40 Oil on canvas
Price £190
An unsettling incandescent view of a city . The melting buildings do not stop people from experiencing passions, having sex and carry on their life in the middle of the most frightening catastrophe
Yellow lunch 2 - 60X50 cm 05/2023 Oil on canvas
Price £250
A new interpretation of an old subject. The yellow restaurant with the man alone in close up and the rest of the people in the background, sitting like the apostles of Jesus. After I sold the other version I felt an incredible longing for that painting, so i had to make a new version of it
