“Titled” is a series of views of the city, in an attempt to investigate the urban reality in its more or less visible aspects. A reflection on the relationship between the myths that we created to explain to ourselves the world we live in and the way in which, from major events such as the first industrial revolution, mankind has lived and shaped the world.
Glimpses of the city, often plain, solid colors, I paint from photographs I took around the world. I don’t declare which city is depicted because I’m interested in what the most diverse cities have in common.
I paint and draw what I see. Whatever the medium, recycled paper or canvas, and the technique, acrylic, oil, markers, my reflection moves, surrounds, pierces the environment in which I live: the city. The urban landscape with its “fauna” and its continuous changes coming to my eyes to be registered, without second thoughts, through its artistic figure. The code is the same, changing only the means and the angle: on recycled paper I portray the metropolitan animal, on the canvases I depict geometries of modern architecture. In either case, what fascinates me are the points in common: Whether New York, Paris or Naples that doesn’t matter: I capture the deep sense of living the contemporary city. A reflection that was founded in 2006 in Philadelphia, where I started working at the Titled series, at which I am still working. In Titled (acrylic on paper and acrylic on canvas), contemporary architecture is the protagonist: I portray buildings, neighborhoods, streets inspired by sights of New York, Philadelphia, Rome, Naples …. The charm of the project lies in capturing the feeling, alienating and uplifting at the same time, that only the metropolis can give you: the feeling of being in that specific place, at the center of the world and in any place simultaneously. If with Titled I trace the “outline” of my reflection on the city, my works on paper help to deepen the concepts, analyzing them from different perspectives.
I inquire into the city because I believe it represents the will of human being, his way of thinking about himself and show himself to the others, it also represents the relations between people and things and relationships. Through my works I’d like to invite who look at them to complete the works by himself, with his/her intuition, his/her feelings about them.
011titled#06Acrylic on paper cm 150 x 150, 2011
012TITLED#07.JPGAcrylic on wood panel cm 35 x 35, 2012
012titled#011Acrylic on canvas cm 80 x 80, 2012
012TITLED#012Acrylic on wood panel cm 35 x 35, 2012
012TITLED#014Acrylic on wood panel cm 35 x 35, 2012
012TITLED#015Acrylic on wood panel cm 35 x 35, 2012
013titled#02Acrylic on canvas cm 80 x 80, 2013
013titled#02F.JPGAcrylic on paper cm 150 x 150, 2013
013titled#04FAcrylic on paper cm 150 x 150, 2013
014titled#01Acrylic on canvas cm 30 x 40, 2014
014titled#02Acrylic on canvas cm 30 x 40, 2014
014titled#010Acrylic on canvas cm 50 x 150, 2014
015titled#06Acrylic on canvas cm 50 x 50, 2015
015titled#07Acrylic on canvas cm 50 x 50, 2015
015titled#08Acrylic on canvas cm 40 x 40, 2015
016titled addis 2Acrylic on canavs cm 200 x 100 (4/4)
016titled addis 3Acrylic on canavs cm 200 x 100 (3/4) 2016
016titled addis 4Acrylic on canavs cm 200 x 100 (2/4) 2016
016titled addisAcrylic on canavs cm 200 x 100 (1/4) 2016
016titled#04Acrylic on canavs cm 100 x 70, 2016
016titled#05Acrylic on canavs cm 50 x 50, 2016
016titled#06Acrylic on canavs cm 30 x 60, 2016
016titled#07Acrylic on canavs cm 67 x 67, 2016
016titled#011Acrylic on wooden panel cm 35 x 35, 2016
016titled#012Acrylic on canavs cm 120 x 100, 2016
016titled#013Acrylic on canavs cm 60 x 30, 2016
016titled#014Acrylic on canavs cm 70 x 50, 2016
016titled0#08Acrylic on canavs cm 30 x 30, 2016
016titled0#09Acrylic and enamel on canavs cm 30 x 30, 2016
016titled0#010Acrylic on canavs cm 40 x 30, 2016
From_AA_to_NYC_01Acrylic and enamel on canavs cm 40 x 40
From_AA_to_NYC_03
in line 4 momaAcrylic on wooden panel cm 69 x 31
Little italyAcrylic on canavs cm 80 x 40
013titled#02FAcrylic on paper cm 150 x 150, 2013
016titled#01Acrylic on canvas cm 80 x 80, 2016
Spaccanapoli 3Acrylic on canvas cm 40 x 30, 2015
Spaccanapoli 05Acrylic on canvas cm 40 x 30, 2015
Spaccanapoli Boogie Woogie 4Acrylic on canvas cm 40 x 30, 2014
Surf AVAcrylic on wooden panel cm 31 x 69
To Brooklyn RMXAcrylic and enamel on canvas cm 80 x 80