Statement
/ Statement
MY ARTWORKS REPRESENT WINDOWS ONTO OTHER WORLDS, REAL OR “MORE THAN REAL”.
THINKING ART
I observe reality by questioning everything. I reconsider the importance of details, I reinterpret the relationship with our nature, I look at human behavior in their environments searching for elements of personal and collective growth. I believe in the power of art to inspire, to move and to spark reflection.
My images, with extreme freedom, are the result of photography and a personal digital technique.
The art collection gathers documentary studies, published reports, experiences, discoveries, interest in anthropological and social topics and Nature, as our very essence.
They are necessary searches and reflections. They represent spaces for travel, exploration and interpretation, inspiring us to reconsider our views on life and reality.
They depict everyday life details from different parts of the world, interpretations of unreal situations and sublime moments.
The artworks are composed of moods, emotions, observations, thoughts, as they were perceived.
The real landscape of my images is often transformed into an abstraction where the object becomes subject and the typical gaze of photography turns into expression.
Movimiento Linear de Salida, 2013
Science as the pursuit of truth is the equal, but not superior, of art.
UNCERTAINTY AS THE TRUTH
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle demonstrates that it is never possible to determine all aspects with a single point of view.
Rocket Ship, 2022 Guinovart Art Gallery (Avalanche Summit in Barcelona 3x3 mt NFT)
The possibility of discovering a new essence, a new point of view of reality or new possible ways of living is always there.
The new frontiers of quantum physics fill us with doubts, hopes and reflections about our reality. This can help us to seek truth in a different way.
Once a high level of technical competence is reached, science and art tend to merge.
Images, films, books, textual and audiovisual creations, oratory, they all serve as vessels carrying the soul of what is portrayed, observed, studied, lived.
It is the soul that matters, not the sharpness needed to express them.
Understanding and Evolving
I am Italian and I cannot forget that it was in Italy where the Umanesimo was born and flourished in the XIV and XV centuries. This movement still casts its beneficent light upon the world today. “The aspiration to maximize human prosperity, health, freedom, happiness, knowledge, love can be called humanism”, as the psychologist Steven Pinker wrote, “It is the humanism that led to the creation of the Declaration of Human Rights in France, England and America, gaining renewed strength after World War II and fostering the birth of international cooperation agencies”. As an author, I believe in the Renaissance idea of a broad and transversal vision of culture. An active culture. I believe in Thinking Art, Change Maker. My vision is humanistic, holistic, interpreting with the breadth of the ὅλος, the totality, because reality is complex and we must understand its soul in its multilayered essence.
I am the reflection of what I learned under the sun, immersed in the Ionian Sea accompanied by the song of of Ulysses’ sirens, among the columns of the Magna Grecia’s amphitheaters, on trains speeding north, under the sky of Madrid, in the vivid colors of literature, even in the Pirandelian games of Sicily.
I have shaped my knowledge from many different personal, cultural and educational contexts.
In every situation I immerse myself and then out again. With empathy, connection and respect, I approach and patiently wait, maieutically, for the work to be born.
In the world I observe divine beauty, leaving the door of consciousness open, not as decoration but as wisdom.
I believe in the sea of painter Ran Ortner. In the colors of Franco Fontana. In David Lynch‘s exploration of the unified field, which is consciousness. From the raw reality seen throughCharles Bukowski’s ironic lens, to the distinct narratives of Ryszard Kapuściński, Sergei Dovlátov and Guy de Maupassant. I believe in thepure portraits of Cristina García Rodero and Alberto García Alix. I believe in Josef Koudelka’s static, story-filled moments. In those carefully crafted moments of Jan Saudek, in the whites of Richard Avedon, in the blurs of Bernard Plossu. I refer to the aesthetics of urban artists like Banksy, Ai WeiWei, to the boldness of Nobuyoshi Araki, to the alternative and innovative approaches of Art Spiegelman, and to the era of Andrei Tarkovski.
Art for me is a way of expression, a means to understand and evolve. To celebrate the fact that I am alive. To connect dots, weave stories, inspire and know how to interpret different perspectives. And to share them. So we don’t get lost in meaningless imposed beliefs.
Reality does not exist without an observer. Observing closely allows us to take the first step to change things.