In 1977, while both disco music and punk ruled the world, I began my own life’s journey, during a typical italian hot summer. Since childhood I spent much more time drawing on paper than playing soccer as most of other italian kids did. I think that it could be considered weird in some ways by any italian “signor Rossi”, but who cares? Creating images just fascinated me.
When I was 12 I saw for the first time some paintings on a wall of my city: I got in touch with Graffiti, that soon became one of the most important things of my life. Being a writer has been my way for more than ten years. It’s been the reason to spend hours and hours sketching and passing many cold nights outside on a mission and it has still a big influence on me and the way I visualize paintings nowadays.
2001: time to push things forward. I started to feel limited about letters and spraycans and I decided to put my whole attention to different forms of expression and tools, focusing my work mainly on figures and human body, evolving in a completely different way the the characters I often used to paint aside my pieces.
I started a research about lines, shapes and solid aspects of the colours, using human body and its parts as main subject. Lines of the figure become idealized, renewed and often unreal. Strokes become bones, while paint’s matter turns into flesh.
I love to make my works on useless and broken supports. Painting becomes more intense and dramatic whilst the canvas gets a whole new dimension and dignity.
I currently live, paint & dream in London, UK.