30 August 2021
I chose this image of the entrance to the large galleries of Milan Central Station for this moment of the end of the holidays. The lump of Prussian blue gives thickness to the station structures. By diluting the color a lot with oil, I slid the color with the wiper blade, and I created those lines of the electric cables of the trains, which enter the tunnels from above. I like those threads that run straight. The eye leads me […]
12 July 2021
The subject of the railways is really something that strikes me, for the structures and for the speed created by the lines of the tracks. In this painting there is in the foreground a diagonal with an iron railing of a bridge, which makes us be there, as spectators of the scene. Then there are those three vertical poles, which balance the push towards the horizon given by the tracks. The white spaces of the docks are wanted, just to […]
15 March 2021
In this painting I wanted to portray the Central Station from the top of a bridge, with the overpass bars in the foreground that open onto a broad view of the railway. There is a train stopped at the platform, it is waiting to complete the last stretch to access the station. In the foreground there are many directions, all very delineated, fast and opposite: the lines of the tracks that go towards the horizon, the train in the opposite […]
23 November 2020
When I decided to paint this Milan Central Station, I asked myself what I wanted to aim for and the answer was very immediate: to convey the feeling of returning home. I found an interesting interpretation in the fast movement of the rails: the light rises towards the architecture of the Station in these oval shapes, as if they were open shells which one enters to stay sheltered. The choice of blue is linked to the fact that it is […]
