Bio
A law graduate, he has received national and international awards, including
the Premio Arte Mondadori 1998 (finalist), Arte Award in 2000, winning the
Premio Celeste 2008. He was also a finalist for the Celeste Prize in 2011, and
received the Terna Prize and the Combat Prize (2016) as a jury-selected artist.
He has participated in numerous exhibitions, including "Viadarte" in
Pietrasanta in 2002, "En Plein Air" in Bormio (SO), Chiostro di S'Agostino-
Pietrasanta, Fabbrica Borroni in Milan in 2008, The Invisible Dog Art Center
in Brooklyn, NY in 2011, Garage Bonci "Face to Face" in Pietrasanta in 2013,
"The Summer Art Project" at Foley Gallery in NY in 2014, "Trascorrenze" at
the ex-convent of Clarisse in Massa Marittima (GR) in 2017, Lab(b)roni(ri)ca" at Fortezza Vecchia in Livorno in 2017, "Rifrazioni dalla Memoria" at Palazzo Marigliano in Naples in 2017, "Immenso" as a tribute to Giordano Bruno, at C23 Homegallery-Accademia Belle Arti in Nola (NA) in 2018/19, Lucca ARTFAIR 2019, "INSTABiffiarte" at Biffi Arte Gallery in
Piacenza in 2022, "INVENTARIVM" Reial Cercle Artistic Barcelona 2023,
L'Arca degli Esposti Palermo 2023.
Since I was a boy, I have had a deep love for photography. I loved capturing the
essence of the world around me through my lens. I would spend hours in my
darkroom, which I had converted from an old kitchen, where I could give free rein to
my creativity. After graduating in law, the call of art became even more pressing.
Photography still played an important role, but I felt the need for something more. I
wanted to create something that was deeply mine, that came from my innermost self.
Painting became the cornerstone of my artistic practice. Painting for me is an
introspective journey of exploration of identity, memory, and perception. My works
are fragments of imaginary narratives, in which different elements, sometimes
contrasting, combine to create new and meaningful interactions. I am inspired by my
passion for vintage photographs, in particular, the colors and atmospheres of the
1950s, which provide visual traces to which, in an unplanned way, unusual
perceptual paths and surreal dimensions are added. The figures that emerge,
reworked and transfigured following a continuous process of questioning,
experimentation, and discovery, evoke a lived experience that is on the verge of the
banal, which develops in an unexpected and disorienting way, with a nervous and
fragmented, almost abstract painting style.
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