7 June 2021
This Monday’s artwork is the Duomo seen from Piazza Fontana: it is the glimpse from which all my work on the Duomo started, in 2012 (at this link, towards the end, you will find my first paintings on the Duomo). It is fascinating when you are there at that intersection of wires, and they take you like a vortex and make you do that exercise of looking up, so at a certain point, in the middle of the tangle, the […]
10 November 2020
Last week, as I was about to leave the studio, the lights were already off, and I stopped to look at this work, Duomo Subway Exit which was just painted. I was moved because, even with the surrounding lights already off, the marble of the white facade of the Duomo gave off a very beautiful, discreet but present light. There I realized that the painting was finished! Another important aspect of the work is the pose of the person with […]
21 September 2020
Over the years, the city of Milan has made me come out for all that I am: when I had some doubts, it made me be more decisive in my choices, it made me come out directly from the tube of color the essentiality of what I was experiencing. In this small work on the Duomo (20x30cm) there is all the openness of the Lombard sky, into the veils of the clouds. In the lines of the tram on the […]
18 May 2020
In order to paint this Duomo oil on canvas I used a very intense ultramarine blue and I created this sky depicted in the moment of the evening. You can clearly see the light of the Madonnina that stands out up there in all its brilliance, thanks also to the color of the sky. The cutting edges are fighters that collide, and it strikes me a lot as inside this epoch-making conflict we are going through in Covid-19, there is […]
