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My gaze focuses on young people or children, simply immersed in their thoughts or intent on their games, transported into somewhat dreamy, airy and suspended atmosphere. Inspiration moves from the enchantment of a gesture or expression, in which I perceive intuitions, fantasies or mild anxieties, references to contiguous worlds: glimpses of nature, surreal elements, animals living in freedom, airplanes and gliders in flight. Following a perceptive thread, I often paint diptychs or triptychs, short stories in which the representational space is divided and the narration takes place between colored and monochrome canvases, pursuing the connections between moments that are distant in space and not necessarily contemporaneous.

I am seeking a floating, almost ethereal dimension, where man and nature meet in harmony, an intimate, fragile dimension where what is real borders on the world of dreams and intuitions. Born and raised in Piedmont (Italy), I studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, earning my degree in set design. The following year, I went to Milan, where I had won a scholarship to the La Scala Theater set design shop. In 1989, I moved to Rome, where I pursued a demanding career in scenic design for more than twenty years. This allowed me to draw and design a great deal, for theater, film and television alike. Around 2010 I scaled back my activities as a set designer to devote myself more intensively to painting. Today, painting is truly an expressive necessity for me, as well as a mirror of my personal way of feeling. I currently live and work in Rome.

I have exhibited my work in two different solo shows, one in Rome in 2018 and the other in the Gualdo Tadino Museum Center in 2020. I have participated in a number of prestigious group shows, including: four different editions of the “Premio Sulmona” with the patronage of the Italian Council of Ministers (2018 – 2019 – 2020 – 2022), the “Finalists of the Mondadori Art Prize” at Palazzo Reale in Milan (2017), the “Viterbo Creative Biennial” at Palazzo dei Papi (2015) and the “Venice Italian Pavilion” in Turin (2011). My painting “In the Silence Amidst the Trees” was highlighted in the catalog for the 2017 Combact Prize.