I’am visual artist based in Italy (Livorno).

My appearance in the world of painting is the most sudden and irrational there is.
Despite having a painter father, who undoubtedly gave me some ‘creative genes’,
this ‘magic’ was born late in me.
Important was a chance encounter with one extraordinary work
of the artist Lucian Freud. In it, a face full of feeling and incredibly
legible in transmitting and representing all the emotions,
the intense mood, the thoughts of the person portrayed.
A shock. I get it.
I had to paint!
I had to paint people!
I had to investigate!
I had to do it not as a painter but rather like a psychologist
who studies the condition of man.
A path that thanks art helps me understand life better.

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