29 June 2020
This Monday’s Duomo starts from a provocation that we faced in a dinner few days ago: Can art be a way of experiencing work? To implement – not only represent – a new way of working? Can it still “employ” the society? These questions are taken from an intervention by Francesco Fornasieri that you can read here. In this article the author reflects on the fact that, during the Middle Ages, the construction of large cathedrals including the Milan Cathedral […]
6 April 2020
In these days seeing empty cities is truly surreal and at the same time suggestive. Therefore, I fished out of my archive one of the very first works that I did just arrived in Milan in 2012. In this work on paper (112x140cm) Piazzale Loreto is depicted as seems to me today. I still remember well the feelings with which I painted it: I was very angry because I couldn’t understand how to portray the city of Milan. It was […]
27 January 2020
In this large Duomo Square I used a new technique: water-based paint and enamel on canvas. The inspiration that prompted me to use these two new pictorial tools was to see the works of Emilio Vedova exhibited at the moment in the spectacular Sala delle Cariatidi of Palazzo Reale in Milan. The pictorial gestures and the rhythm that Vedova gave to each of his works really impressed me. It was an exhibition that made me want to bring back his […]
28 October 2019
The San Siro stadium is a historical monument that is part of the history of Milan, it is an icon. At San Siro, I am very struck by the strong impact that you get when are in front of him: as you get closer, the lines of the structures appear more and more dynamic and light, and it is this feeling that I tried to make using tempera. In my opinion art is like sport: made of tension, disappointments, satisfactions, […]