“Quarrel”

Concept

I have always been in love with painting, which for me are signs, colors, interpretation and intervention of and on reality. Painting has always been a way for me to tell my own life, almost never in a direct and explicit way, almost always through metaphors, analogies, symbols. What better means than the abstract to do all this? Abstract language praises all the pictorial tools and makes them capable of better expressing the inexpressible, what we all know, and we know deeply, as part of everyday life, as a common heritage, but difficult to express with ordinary words. I have always reflected how often the words of songs are "stupid", but at the same time so appropriate to hook, transport and make accessible to our hearing the sweetness of a melody ... And so in some way I believe it can happen with painting: signs and simple, basic, almost childish colors, but precisely for this reason universal and within everyone's reach, suitable for hooking the eyes of the heart and transporting inbound and outbound speeches that cannot be predicted with the ordinary alphabet. Speeches that know of feelings and sensations, of memories and amnesia, of certainties and bewilderments ... This is what I try to convey with my painting, abstract as regards the ordinary conventions concerning the ways of giving names to things, but absolutely concrete and realistic if we decide at a certain point, to "give a name" to something that is stirring in all of us. After all, someone said that "things are more invisible than what you see" ...