Artist Statement
My philosophy of life and my perspective upon contemporary art in brief (as it results from my particular artistic practice).
Through the means of painting, the investigation of the unseen, of the fantastic and of their interweaving with the reality of the immediate existence, represents the sea of unknown in which I dive in. I do not intend to reach an absolute, to comprise into a single work everything that can be said (only if we understand that what can be said is nothing). Still, through my artistic pursuits I intend to leave at least some kind of track, some trail, some humble confession of an inexpressible truth. This particular truth reveals itself to us precisely because it is hiding in all that can be seen. In my opinion, painting is contemporary only insofar as it manages to comprise its whole historical being and to recapitulate its becoming into particular and personal aesthetical works. My artistic approach involves a dialogue about origins and fulfillment, which I carry within myself, renewing it with every new painting I realize. Bringing together, in the same space of the painting, worlds that are apparently incompatible, is one of my recurrent concerns. Likewise, I am preoccupied by the reconciliation of their implicit ontological differences, through the expressive language of pictorial composition. The way I actually see it: it’s all a game of correlatives, of subtle and celestial hierarchies that cascade over reality’s stone plateau and its state of familiarity. Art fully claims spirit, whose immaterial substance is sheltered in the painted body of the primed canvas. The artist should be - in my opinion - a very responsible person. He creates an alternative realm of existence, one that is realized only in the mind of its viewers, based on their own knowledge and experience. Perhaps aesthetic perception and objectual matter have only a guiding role. read the full CV |