19 April 2021
Last week I went to a client’s home to deliver one of my artworks on the Duomo. While I was setting up the work, we discussed the fact that whoever loves Milan, immediately think to the Duomo, to the Madonnina. Yes, there are also other symbolic places I would say “untouchable” such as Sant’Ambrogio, the San Siro stadium for sportsmen, Unicredit and the whole area of Porta Garibaldi with the Isola district. But why the Duomo? I try to give […]
1 February 2021
The act of painting the Milan Cathedral, especially in the large format like in this 100x180cm canvas, is always a very intense experience, because the rhythm is sometimes really hectic. The strength of the purple color in the lower part makes it all very dramatic. I was surprised by the suspended position of the wires on the left side of the sky: sometimes I too feel myself like I am suspended around the corner, just to see something that strikes […]
11 January 2021
Each painting has its own history and its own time of execution. In this painting about the Milan Cathedral, it took me a long time to come to a conclusion. In the lower part of the painting, there is the best part of me, because there are masses of color that collide with each other, created with very direct movements of the palette knife and with the color rendered liquid. Each part of the work is in a certain sense […]
30 November 2020
Recently I thought of something that at the beginning of my arrival in Milan I would never have said: some glimpses of buildings are actually starting to enter me, no longer as a hostile presence, but as something strangely positive. The work on the lines in the series on airports, parking lots and stations is certainly helping me to let the buildings enter as dynamic elements, and with a force of color in which they are one with the movement […]
