Prize, Italy, Roma, 02 April 2016
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My latest painting series takes inspiration from a news article I read, reporting on a
swan that had been beaten up, battered and nearly killed by a boy.
This story left me upset and disturbed for many days.
Working through this discomfort, I started tracing the first lines on a huge canvas I had
put aside for a long time.
That was the start of the first painting in this series, “Stagione Venatoria 2014”
(“Shooting Season 2014”); I then followed up on this animal-rights inspired theme, along
its various nuances.
In the painting, figures merge, body parts exchange and complement each other, while at
the same time the overall image goes beyond realism, tipping surrealism by presenting
one whole body, part human and part animal.
In my “Shooting Season”, the head itself is that of an animal. The head as the place where
we ideally locate conscience, where emotions are felt, decisions are taken, imagination
resides and thought is elaborated.
My intent is to give the beholder the possibility of empathizing with the animal, even
identifying with it, by understanding more in depth and feeling tangibly how animal life
is as conscious and aware as human life.
swan that had been beaten up, battered and nearly killed by a boy.
This story left me upset and disturbed for many days.
Working through this discomfort, I started tracing the first lines on a huge canvas I had
put aside for a long time.
That was the start of the first painting in this series, “Stagione Venatoria 2014”
(“Shooting Season 2014”); I then followed up on this animal-rights inspired theme, along
its various nuances.
In the painting, figures merge, body parts exchange and complement each other, while at
the same time the overall image goes beyond realism, tipping surrealism by presenting
one whole body, part human and part animal.
In my “Shooting Season”, the head itself is that of an animal. The head as the place where
we ideally locate conscience, where emotions are felt, decisions are taken, imagination
resides and thought is elaborated.
My intent is to give the beholder the possibility of empathizing with the animal, even
identifying with it, by understanding more in depth and feeling tangibly how animal life
is as conscious and aware as human life.
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