STEEL POLYCHROMIE
"This series is halfway between the everyday object and the work of art. The hectic rhythm of the colors makes the piece vibrate and explode its shape.
But before being a tray or a vase, these pieces are first and foremost sculptures and their realization was guided by my requirements as a sculptor, namely a rhythmic work, which is defined and has its own function in space. Painting came to play a primary role in exalting the forms of these sculptures, making them vibrate more, giving them a graphic and free appearance.
With my painted sculptures, I try through an almost tribal painting, to explode the voids and filled spaces in an agitated whirlwind well proportioned and guided by a deliberate rhythm, essential in my work.
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SICILIA
As a Sicilian, the colorful ceramics of everyday life have always accompanied me, and their vibrant colors have influenced my work as a painter and sculptor. Evoking my native Sicily and its traditional ceramics was a natural choice, and each sculpture in its own way suggests a buried memory, an image, an impression of this fertile and inspiring island...
This very first series of sculptures, created in 2021, is inspired by memories of Sicily, an island whose culture, art, architecture, language, and cuisine are a vast blend of all the peoples who have inhabited it : Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Spanish... My works, too, are the fruit of this blend of cultures, this melting pot. The colors of the Mediterranean basin, the sea, the vegetation are present in each of these pieces and invite memories of travel, reminiscences of the past between nature, culture and a whole common heritage, an inexhaustible source of inspiration for millennia.
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MON BLANC
The Mon Blanc series is a reference to the passage under this mythical summit that unites France, my adopted land and Italy, my native land.
This symbolic journey, materialised by the journey under the famous Mont Blanc tunnel, is always for me a journey towards a return to the sources of art and creation.
This series, whose main thread is white, is also an evocation of places and myths anchored in my inspiration.
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BLOOMING (Eclosion)
Starting from the lines of a cup or a vase, the sculptures very often borrow the forms of flowers, of blossoming corollas evoking a plant and floral world, colorful and dreamlike... Nature, as the ultimate creator, dazzles me with the infinite richness of its palette of colors and shapes, and the flowers, like living sculptures, have come to impose their presence in the rigidity and coldness of the metal that I use. These pieces evoke the living but ephemeral sculptures that are flowers, and through my work in welded steel, I make them immortal, eternal. Conversely, the curves and roundness of the forms of Nature that are petals and corollas, bring fluidity, rhythm and lightness to the rigid and sharp steel that I work.
Painted and patinated steel
• Series Birth of Venus
The sculptures in this series evoke the shape of the shell that accompanied Venus from the Sea to Earth, Venus who embodies beauty, love, but also fertility, which could just as easily represent the fertility of the human spirit through artistic creation.
SOLE MIO - Mural sculptures
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