During autumn 2019 in Stigliano (MT) I participated to the AppARTengo festival.
The work I realized is called The Night Eaters. Dominated by the red Kite (Milvus milvus) the skies of Stigliano where really windy and cold, it took a little longer than usual but in the end everything was done, also thanks to the great company of the organizers, photographers and friends of the festival.
In the summer of 2019 I went to the “CityCall” festival, organized by UrbanAct in the city of Volos in Greece. The myth says that from Volos Jason and the Argonauts left to look for the Golden Fleece in Colchis. Instead on this school’s wall I painted in the attic red-figure style the myth of the origin of the Horse of the vase, a lost story of storms, deceit and courage, where a horse become his own myth.
Harlan, Kentucky (USA) summer 2019, to held a workshop organized by the Kentucky University and curated by my dear friends Carrie Billet and Robert Gipe.
After the classes I made the acquaintance of a really particular and endangered animal, a kind of giant salamander that leaves in the fresh waters of this part of the Appalachian region called the Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis). I decided to dedicate my wall to her…
Spring 2018 I was invited to Angers by the curator Eric Surmont (Winterlong gallerie) to participate to the urban project Echappées d’art. The medieval city of Angers hosts the Apocalypse Tapestry, a weaved version of the apocalypse of St. John of incredible features and size. I deliberately took inspiration to paint my murals, the two walls are one the exact continuation of the other… to be continued sometimes, somewhere.
In Torino there is the head quarter of the Lavazza coffee company, in 2018 they organized a project called TOward 2030 dedicated to the 17 global goal. I depicted
The life on land.
In Spring 2017 I was invited to Street Art Masullas in Sardinia IT. Before the festival I spent some days in Cabras looking for Flamingos in the “Pond”, the colours of this wonderful island inspired my painting.
For two consecutive years at the “Casa dei Beni Comuni” for a wonderful festival on the foot of the mountains in northern Italy. The two walls are the opposite sides of the same building, one is the “development” of the other.
In Summer 2016, I came back to Norway after many years in Stø, Vesterålen. Guided by the marine biologist Tiu Similä and hosted by the incredible Lauri Pietikäinen and all the crew of the Artic whale tour, I worked on a whale watching boat looking for Sperm whales, Orcas and many other animals. For a month I collected and realized a vast documentation (walls, watercolours, drawings, photos and notes) about the biggest brain on the planet, the mysterious whales and their environment, the *BALENA* project. Looking for something so big I realized and experienced the importance of something so intangible as the observation of nature itself. Probably I found one of the true essences of this cetacean. The animal I was looking for has now evolved in to something new and much wider, like the “visions” of the many that look and looked at the horizon …
