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COMACCHIO

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Spina Festival in Comacchio, June 2024.
A little wall, just in front of the brackish water channels that shape the landscape of this area, a maze of water and sky, once kingdom of the elusive eel. Curated by maitre Silvano Voltolina in collaboration with Manufactory.
I also got back inside the magic drawing Bear, character created for the theatre project MIO by Silvano Voltolina and designed by Ericailcane.
Besides painting and “acting” there was also a little exhibit of books and the screening of The Image Hunter film

BORCA DI CADORE

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“Seasons for a Black Woodpecker” June 2024.
This two  paintings on bed sheets were installed in the woods of Borca di Cadore, in the heart of the Dolomiti Alps. This project was created for the artist- residency at the incredible hotel Boite, organized by the guys from Home Network curated by Paola Corrias and Daniele Gregorini.
Clearly I haven’t lost the chance to hike a little bit and do some watercolours while I was there.

DAI RAGNI AI MORTI ERA IL REGNO DELLE METAMORFOSI

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“Dai ragni ai morti era il regno della metamorfosi” (“From spiders to the dead, it was the realm of metamorphosis”) is a handmade book composed of a single foldable paper sheet.
A 3 colour screen print, edition of 100\100 printed in the winter of 2024 on Fedrigoni Sahara paper. (50×50 cm)
This work is part of the book series  PMP created by the wise roman printer Pietro Pasa for Litchis Edizioni

The art is inspired by Roberto Calasso’s “Il cacciatore celeste” a wonderful book on how humans developed from hunted to hunters and the relentless evolution of the Gods. 

OSTIA

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February 2024, “The evolution of a fish”.
This mural was realized in Ostia (the sea of Rome) on the walls of a high school.
The story depicted is a possible evolutionary path of an imaginary fish. From the dawn of life to its final shapes on the right wall, the fish in the black shapes, develops in to mammals on the left wall. There the fish faces the human impact, inspired and disguised as two masterpieces as M.C. Esher’s puddle xylography and the Goldfishes by Matisse. From fishes, Evolution went in many different directions, some mammals even came back to the sea developing in to cetaceans. May be there is something to learn from it for our (human) next choices.

This project was splendidly curated by Mr. Mirko Pierri of a.DNA project.
Thanks to Paolo for some of the photos and Simone for the amazing video.  

TETTO

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“Riunione di condominio” a temporary installation on bed sheets. Some of the most notorious birds of Rome chatting and complaining, on top of this incredible roof right above the city.
The work was realized for the summer art and architecture festival organized by OpenHouse a special thanks Luigi Castelli and Giovanni Pasa for the photos. 

PENNELLI RIBELLI

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Marzabotto in the valley of Reno is unfortunately famous for the massacre of Monte Sole, a World War II war crime consisting in a mass murder of civilians by the Nazi-Fascists.
In reprisal for attacks on German soldiers by partisans and the Resistance between 29 September and 5 October 1944 a Waffen SS division was ordered to systematically kill hundreds of people in Marzabotto. They also killed numerous residents of the adjacent Grizzana Morandi and Monzuno, in the area of the massif of Monte Sole.
It was the deadliest mass shooting in the modern day’s history of Italy.
Since 2018 there is a mural-festival in Marzabotto, PENNELLI RIBELLI born to create a discussion about this terrible events.
I’ve got invited to paint there in July 2023.
Thanks to ALL the organizers!!

CIVITAVECCHIA

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September 2022 the Fondazione Molinari onlus invited me to paint a wall in the city center of Civitavecchia. The city is one of the most important port of Italy, for this wall I played with the idea of sea and its connection with the rest of all environments. The title of the wall is: Un giorno dell’onda\ A day of the wave
Grazie Silvia for your perseverance and great attitude.
Some of the photos are by the magic Emanuele Ercolani, the videos are realized by Roberto Giannesi

HILTON HEAD

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In may 2022 “The Image Hunter” exhibition after three years touring around the States had its last venue at the COSTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM in Hilton Head island in South Carolina.  

With the occasion I got invited for a site specific intervention and painted some of the facilities of the museum, clearly spending time exploring the area and its many natural wonders.  

I really have to thank the staff of the museum for their outstanding hospitality and great vision, in particular Elizabeth Greenberg, chief curator of the exhibition and the director Rex Garniewicz.

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