Painting
I love travelling and, by happy chance, one fine day I set off for Venezuela.
I fell in love with this most beautiful of lands, and plants started growing in my paintings: aggressive and overpowering in their resplendent colours, which joined the dazzling whites I had captured in Greece and intense blues from Arab countries.
From 1976 to 1997 I regularly exhibited in Venezuela, bringing the changes in my home town to the Italians who live in South America, and evocative pictures of those distant lands to people in Italy. In a certain sense, I could say that Venezuela adopted me.
Through their embassies in Italy, the South American republics asked me to show their lands in an exhibition put on in the Sala del Quadrifoglio at EUR in Rome, to celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Simon Bolivar.
I fell in love with this most beautiful of lands, and plants started growing in my paintings: aggressive and overpowering in their resplendent colours, which joined the dazzling whites I had captured in Greece and intense blues from Arab countries.
From 1976 to 1997 I regularly exhibited in Venezuela, bringing the changes in my home town to the Italians who live in South America, and evocative pictures of those distant lands to people in Italy. In a certain sense, I could say that Venezuela adopted me.
Through their embassies in Italy, the South American republics asked me to show their lands in an exhibition put on in the Sala del Quadrifoglio at EUR in Rome, to celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Simon Bolivar.
With my “landscape portraits”, I have exhibited in many cities in Italy and abroad, including Milan, Monza, Turin, Rome, Venice, Paris, Oslo, Madrid, Miami, and Caracas.
Among the many exhibitions I have put on in Genoa, I have the greatest pleasure recalling the three that focused on the extraordinary beauty of the old part of Genoa, the city where I was born: “Genova, un cielo sui tetti” in 1990, “Ferri dei tetti, cornici del cielo” in 2000 and “Ardesia, anima di Liguria” in 2005.
I love drawing, especially from life, and these three exhibitions gave me great satisfaction, partly because they offered me endless opportunities to find out about – and make known – the curious world of the oldest part of my city. It is an authentic heritage that I sincerely hope will long be preserved, with all its unique and inimitable characteristics.
Among the many exhibitions I have put on in Genoa, I have the greatest pleasure recalling the three that focused on the extraordinary beauty of the old part of Genoa, the city where I was born: “Genova, un cielo sui tetti” in 1990, “Ferri dei tetti, cornici del cielo” in 2000 and “Ardesia, anima di Liguria” in 2005.
I love drawing, especially from life, and these three exhibitions gave me great satisfaction, partly because they offered me endless opportunities to find out about – and make known – the curious world of the oldest part of my city. It is an authentic heritage that I sincerely hope will long be preserved, with all its unique and inimitable characteristics.
Last production: “Invitation to Liguria”.